Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 69
She was very pleased with Tiny, so she said, "You are quite welcome to stay with me all the winter, if you like; but you must keep my rooms clean and neat, and tell me stories, for I shall like to hear them very much."
Who acts: creature, You · What happens: be, say, stay, like, keep, tell · To what, where: rooms, stories, creature · 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 (creature, You), 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 | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Tiny | case |
| 6 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pleased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 welcome | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 welcome | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 welcome | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 welcome | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 welcome | advmod |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 welcome | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 winter | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 winter | det |
| 23 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 like | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 keep | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 keep | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 keep | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 keep | aux |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleased | parataxis |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 34 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keep | obj |
| 35 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keep | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 neat | cc |
| 37 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clean | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tell | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 tell | cc |
| 40 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 keep | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 tell | iobj |
| 42 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 tell | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 like | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 47 like | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 like | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 like | aux |
| 47 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 tell | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 hear | mark |
| 49 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 like | xcomp |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 hear | obj |
| 51 | very | very | ADV | _ | 52 much | advmod |
| 52 | much | much | ADV | _ | 49 hear | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | creature | with Tiny; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | creature | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | You | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | winter | with creature | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 5 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | must | you | my rooms | clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | stories | creature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 8 | like in a quote | shall | creature | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | hear not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | creature not said here | stories = story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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