Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 44

He seated himself by her side on a large green leaf, gave her some honey from the flowers to eat, and told her she was very pretty, though not in the least like a cockchafer.

Who acts: cockchafer, Tiny · What happens: seat, give, eat, tell, be · To what, where: cockchafer, large green leaf, honey, Tiny, flowers, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cockchafer, Tiny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 leaf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaf	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaf	amod
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 honey	det
16	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 flowers	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pretty	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pretty	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 pretty	advmod
29	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	24 told	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 least	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 least	mark
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 least	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 least	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 least	det
35	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 told	obl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 cockchafer	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cockchafer	det
38	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 least	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	cockchafer	cockchafer		a large green leaf	by Tiny's side	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	give	past	cockchafer not said here	some honey	Tiny	the flowers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient honey=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	cockchafer not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	cockchafer not said here		Tiny	the least		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past	Tiny				pretty property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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