Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 89

How miserable it must be to be born a little bird!

What happens: bear · To what, where: daylight

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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 miserable	advmod
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 born	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 born	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 born	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 born	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	must · passive		daylight					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bird=Patient

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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