Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 96
But during the night Tiny could not sleep; so she got out of bed and wove a large, beautiful carpet of hay; then she carried it to the dead bird, and spread it over him; with some down from the flowers which she had found in the field-mouse's room.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: not sleep, get out, weave, carry, spread, find · To what, where: bed, large beautiful carpet, carpet, dead bird, flowers, room
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), 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 | _ | 8 sleep | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 5 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wove | cc |
| 17 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 carpet | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 carpet | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 large | punct |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 carpet | amod |
| 22 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wove | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hay | case |
| 24 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carpet | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 carried | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 carried | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carried | nsubj |
| 28 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carried | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 bird | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bird | det |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bird | amod |
| 33 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carried | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 spread | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 spread | cc |
| 36 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 carried | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 spread | obj |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 spread | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 down | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 down | case |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 down | nsubj |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 flowers | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 flowers | det |
| 46 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 down | obl |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 found | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 found | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 found | aux |
| 50 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 room | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 mouse | det |
| 53 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 mouse | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 field | punct |
| 55 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 room | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 mouse | case |
| 57 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 found | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | could | Tiny | night | down property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get out | past | Tiny | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weave | past | Tiny not said here | a large beautiful carpet of hay | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | Tiny | carpet | the dead bird | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bird=Destination | ||
| 5 | spread | past | Tiny not said here | carpet | over man | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over he=Destination | |||
| 6 | find | past · perfect · passive | the flowers | the field mouse's room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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