Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 99

Then she laid her head on the bird's breast, but she was alarmed immediately, for it seemed as if something inside the bird went "thump, thump."

Who acts: tree, it, something · What happens: lay, alarm, seem, go · To what, where: head, breast, tree, thump

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 (tree, it, something), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 breast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breast	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bird	case
10	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alarmed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 alarmed	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 alarmed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 alarmed	aux:pass
15	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	conj
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	15 alarmed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 seemed	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 went	nsubj
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	26 bird	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 something	nmod
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	advcl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 thump	punct
29	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thump	punct
31	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thump	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	tree	tree's head	the bird's breast	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on breast=Destination
2	alarm	past · passive		tree			immediately property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	something	thump and thump				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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