Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 93

Tiny said nothing; but when the two others had turned their backs on the bird, she stooped down and stroked aside the soft feathers which covered the head, and kissed the closed eyelids. "

Who acts: Tiny, two others, soft feathers · What happens: say, turn, stoop down, stroke, cover, kiss · To what, where: nothing, backs, head, closed eyelids · 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 (Tiny, two others, soft feathers), 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	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stooped	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 stooped	cc
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 turned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 others	nummod
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 stooped	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 backs	nmod:poss
13	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bird	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stooped	nsubj
19	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 stooped	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stroked	cc
22	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stooped	conj
23	aside	aside	ADP	_	26 feathers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 feathers	det
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feathers	amod
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stroked	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 covered	nsubj
28	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feathers	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 head	det
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kissed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kissed	cc
33	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eyelids	det
35	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 eyelids	amod
36	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kissed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 kissed	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tiny	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	turn	past · perfect	the two others	others's backs	on the bird	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	stoop down	past	Tiny			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stroke	participle	Tiny not said here		aside the soft feathers	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cover	past	the soft feathers	the head		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination
6	kiss	past		the closed eyelids		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Co-Agent
7	close	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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