Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 54

She wove herself a bed with blades of grass, and hung it up under a broad leaf, to protect herself from the rain.

Who acts: Tiny · What happens: weave, hang up, protect · To what, where: Tiny, bed, broad leaf

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wove	nsubj
2	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wove	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wove	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 blades	case
7	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wove	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 grass	case
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blades	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hung	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hung	cc
12	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wove	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hung	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 hung	compound:prt
15	under	under	ADP	_	18 leaf	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 leaf	det
17	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 leaf	amod
18	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 protect	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 protect	mark
21	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hung	advcl
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 protect	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 rain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rain	det
25	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 protect	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weave	past	Tiny	Tiny		with blades of grass	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary bed=Product
2	hang up	past	Tiny not said here	bed	a broad leaf		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under leaf=Destination
3	protect	to-infinitive	Tiny not said here	Tiny		from the rain	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary from rain=Theme

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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