Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 61
Then she wrapped herself up in a dry leaf, but it cracked in the middle and could not keep her warm, and she shivered with cold.
Who acts: tree, death · What happens: wrap up, crack, not keep, shiver · To what, where: tree, dry leaf, middle
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 (tree, death), 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 | 3 wrapped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 leaf | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 leaf | det |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaf | amod |
| 9 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cracked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 cracked | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cracked | nsubj |
| 13 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cracked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 keep | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 keep | advmod |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cracked | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 warm | nmod:poss |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 keep | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shivered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shivered | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shivered | nsubj |
| 26 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 cold | case |
| 28 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shivered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past | tree | tree | a dry leaf | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in leaf=Destination | ||
| 2 | crack | past | death | the middle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | not keep | could | death not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shiver | past | tree | with cold | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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