Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 9

She was scarcely half as long as a thumb, and they gave her the name of "Thumbelina," or Tiny, because she was so small.

Who acts: flower, stamens · What happens: be, give, name · To what, where: name, flower, Thumbelina

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 (flower, stamens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5691): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	6 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
4	half	half	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 thumb	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thumb	det
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Thumbelina	case
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Thumbelina	punct
19	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 name	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Thumbelina	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Thumbelina	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 Tiny	cc
23	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Thumbelina	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 small	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 small	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 small	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 small	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 small	advmod
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	flower			as a thumb; half, long, scarcely property	tree rules
2	give	past	stamens = stamen	the name of Thumbelina or Tiny	flower		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme
3	is	past	flower			small property	tree rules
4	name			Thumbelina or Tiny			nom name «communication transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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