Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 94

Perhaps this was the one who sang to me so sweetly in the summer," she said; "and how much pleasure it gave me, you dear, pretty bird."

Who acts: this, one, Tiny, much pleasure · What happens: be, sing, say, give · To what, where: one, me · 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 (this, one, Tiny, much pleasure), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sang	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sweetly	advmod
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 summer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 summer	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pleasure	amod
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dear	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 dear	nsubj
30	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gave	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bird	punct
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bird	amod
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dear	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the one			perhaps property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	the one		me	summer	sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tiny					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	much pleasure		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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