English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 111

And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, frighten, hide, go, sleep · To what, where: teeny tiny head, tiny clothes

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 woman	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 woman	nsubj
3	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 teeny	punct
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tiny	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tiny	det
9	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tiny	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 teeny	punct
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	conj
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tiny	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 hid	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hid	nsubj
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
18	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 teeny	punct
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hid	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	27 clothes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clothes	det
24	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tiny	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 teeny	punct
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clothes	amod
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 hid	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hid	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 went	xcomp
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 sleep	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					tiny property	tree rules
2	frighten	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hide	past	woman	woman's teeny tiny head	the tiny clothes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient under clothes=Location
4	go	past	woman not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep	to-infinitive	woman not said here			again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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