Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 55

She sucked the honey from the flowers for food, and drank the dew from their leaves every morning.

Who acts: Tiny · What happens: suck, drink · To what, where: honey, flowers, dew, leaves

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 sucked	nsubj
2	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 honey	det
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sucked	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sucked	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drank	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drank	cc
12	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sucked	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dew	det
14	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drank	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 leaves	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 leaves	nmod:poss
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drank	obl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 morning	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drank	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	past	Tiny	the honey		the flowers for food			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from flower=Source
2	drink	past	Tiny not said here	the dew		leaves's leaves	morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=Patient

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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