Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 8
Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden.
What happens: sit · To what, where: delicate graceful little maiden
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: 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 flower | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamens | punct |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 stamens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stamens | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stamens | amod |
| 8 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stamens | compound |
| 9 | stamens | stamen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flower | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flower | punct |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 delicate | advmod |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 graceful | cc |
| 16 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a delicate graceful little maiden | within the flower and the green velvet stamens | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |
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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