Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 64

She was now suddenly a frog, “Croak”; and now she was an old woman.

Who acts: stillness · What happens: be · To what, where: frog, old woman

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stillness), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frog	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frog	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 frog	advmod
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 frog	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Croak	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Croak	punct
9	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frog	appos
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Croak	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 woman	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 woman	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woman	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	cop
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frog	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	stillness	a frog and a old woman			now	suddenly property	tree rules
2	is a	past	stillness	a old woman			now		tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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