Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 65
She came at last to the door of a field-mouse, who had a little den under the corn-stubble.
Who acts: tree, field mouse · What happens: come, have · To what, where: last, little den, corn stubble
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, field mouse), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouse | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 field | punct |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 den | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 den | amod |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 stubble | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stubble | det |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stubble | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 corn | punct |
| 23 | stubble | stubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tree | last | to the door of a field mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a field mouse | a little den | the corn stubble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=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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