Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 88

But the mole pushed it aside with his crooked legs, and said, "He will sing no more now.

Who acts: mole, neighbor · What happens: push, say, sing · To what, where: daylight, more · 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 (mole, 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	_	4 pushed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	nsubj
4	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushed	obj
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 pushed	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 legs	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pushed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sing	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	aux
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 sing	obj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sing	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the mole	daylight		with neighbor's crooked legs; aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mole not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express in a quote	future	neighbor	more	now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=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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