Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 98

Farewell, you pretty little bird," said she, "farewell; thank you for your delightful singing during the summer, when all the trees were green, and the warm sun shone upon us."

Who acts: you, little bird, trees, your · What happens: bird, say, thank, be, shine, sing · To what, where: you, warm sun · 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 (you, little bird, trees, your), 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	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	6 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Farewell	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bird	nsubj
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 farewell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 farewell	punct
13	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 she	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
15	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thank	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 singing	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 singing	nmod:poss
19	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 singing	amod
20	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
21	during	during	ADP	_	23 summer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 summer	det
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 green	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 green	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 trees	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trees	det
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 green	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 green	cop
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thank	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sun	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sun	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
34	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sun	amod
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
36	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sun	acl
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 shone	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 sun	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 sun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bird		you					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	little bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	present			you	summer	for your delightful singing	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for singing=Attribute
4	is	past	all trees				green property	tree rules
5	shine	participle		the warm sun not said here			upon us	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
6	sing		your					nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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