Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 52
And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one could imagine, and as tender and delicate as a beautiful rose-leaf.
Who acts: Tiny, loveliest creature · What happens: be, imagine · To what, where: loveliest creature
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 (Tiny, loveliest creature), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 creature | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 creature | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 creature | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 creature | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | cop |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 creature | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 imagine | nsubj |
| 12 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 imagine | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 imagine | aux |
| 14 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 creature | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tender | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tender | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 tender | case |
| 18 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 delicate | cc |
| 20 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tender | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 leaf | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 leaf | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 leaf | amod |
| 24 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaf | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 rose | punct |
| 26 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tender | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tiny | all loveliest creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | could | all loveliest creature | vn wish-62 «NP V for 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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