Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 75
But Tiny did not feel at all interested about this neighbor, for he was a mole.
Who acts: Tiny, neighbor · What happens: not feel, be
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, neighbor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 feel | cc |
| 2 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 interested | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 interested | det |
| 8 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 neighbor | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 neighbor | det |
| 11 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interested | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mole | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 mole | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mole | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mole | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mole | det |
| 17 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | vocative |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | Tiny | interested property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | neighbor | for a mole | tree rules |
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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