Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 50

Then the cockchafer who had run away with her, believed all the others when they said she was ugly, and would have nothing more to say to her, and told her she might go where she liked.

Who acts: cockchafer, others, Tiny · What happens: run away, believe, say, be, have, tell · To what, where: others, nothing, Tiny · 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, others, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 believed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockchafer	det
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believed	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 run	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cockchafer	acl:relcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 run	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 others	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 believed	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 said	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believed	advcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ugly	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ugly	cop
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 believed	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 nothing	amod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 say	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believed	parataxis
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	ccomp
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 liked	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 liked	nsubj
40	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 go	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past · perfect	the cockchafer				with Tiny; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material
2	believe	past	the cockchafer	all others		then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	others = other					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Tiny				ugly property	tree rules
5	have	would	the cockchafer not said here	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the cockchafer not said here	nothing not said here	Tiny			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
7	tell speech: assert	past			Tiny			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	go	might	Tiny					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	like	past	Tiny					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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