Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 68
"You poor little creature," said the field-mouse, who was really a good old field-mouse, "come into my warm room and dine with me."
Who acts: You, poor little creature, field mouse · What happens: creature, say, be, come, dine · To what, where: field mouse, good old field mouse, warm room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, poor little creature, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def 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 | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mouse | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 mouse | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mouse | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 mouse | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mouse | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mouse | amod |
| 20 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouse | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 field | punct |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouse | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 room | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 room | nmod:poss |
| 28 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 room | amod |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dine | cc |
| 31 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 dine | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | poor little creature | the field mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the field mouse | a good old field mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | my warm room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | dine in a quote | infinitive | with poor little creature = creature | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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