Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 45

After a time, all the cockchafers turned up their feelers, and said, "She has only two legs! how ugly that looks." "

Who acts: cockchafers, Tiny, that · What happens: turn up, say, have, look · To what, where: feelers, two legs · 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 (cockchafers, Tiny, that), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cockchafers	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cockchafers	det
7	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feelers	nmod:poss
11	feelers	feeler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
17	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 looks	advcl
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 two	advmod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 legs	nummod
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 ugly	advmod
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looks	advcl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 looks	nsubj
26	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 looks	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 looks	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	turn up	past	all cockchafers	leaves's feelers	time	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feeler=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	all cockchafers not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	Tiny	two legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	look in a quote	present	that			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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