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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 5

"Thank you," said the woman, and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn.

Who acts: woman, twelve shillings · What happens: thank, say, give, be · To what, where: you, twelve shillings, fairy, price · 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 (woman, twelve shillings), 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

punctccompobjpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctccnsubjconjdetobjnummodobjpunctnsubjcopdetconjcasedetnmodpunctroot"PUNCTThankVERByouPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETwomanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONgaveVERBtheDETfairyNOUNtwelveNUMshillingsNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXtheDETpriceNOUNofADPtheDETbarleycornNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Thankpunct
2ThankthankVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 saidccomp
3youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs2 Thankobj
4,,PUNCT_2 Thankpunct
5""PUNCT_2 Thankpunct
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 womandet
8womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
9,,PUNCT_12 gavepunct
10andandCCONJ_12 gavecc
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 gavensubj
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 saidconj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 fairydet
14fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
15twelvetwelveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 shillingsnummod
16shillingsshillingNOUNNumber=Plur12 gaveobj
17,,PUNCT_21 pricepunct
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel21 pricensubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 pricecop
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 pricedet
21pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing16 shillingsconj
22ofofADP_24 barleycorncase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 barleycorndet
24barleycornbarleycornNOUNNumber=Sing21 pricenmod
25..PUNCT_6 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1thank speech: thank in a quotepresentyouvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2say speech: assertpastthe womanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3givepastwomantwelve shillings and the pricethe fairyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient shilling=Theme
4is apasttwelve shillings and the pricethe priceof the barleycorntree 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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