Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 97

It was as soft as wool, and she spread some of it on each side of the bird, so that he might lie warmly in the cold earth. "

Who acts: carpet, Tiny, mouse · What happens: be, spread, lie · To what, where: some, side, cold earth

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 (carpet, Tiny, mouse), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soft	advmod
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 wool	case
6	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soft	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spread	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spread	nsubj
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 spread	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 some	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lie	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 lie	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lie	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 lie	aux
25	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 soft	conj
26	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	25 lie	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 earth	amod
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lie	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 soft	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 soft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	carpet			as wool; soft property	tree rules
2	spread	past	Tiny	some	each side of the bird		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme on side=Destination
3	lie	might	mouse		the cold earth	warmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location

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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