Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 73

When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not do him any harm.

Who acts: grass, it, one, little Tuk, frogs · What happens: speak, sound, walk, fall, not do, noise · To what, where: noise, moor, good sound sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grass, it, one, little Tuk), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 spoke	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sounded	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 noise	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 noise	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noise	det
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 frogs	case
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 noise	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walked	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 walked	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 walked	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 walked	mark
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walked	nsubj
17	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sounded	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 boots	case
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boots	amod
20	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walked	obl
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 moor	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moor	det
23	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walked	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 tone	punct
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 tone	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tone	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tone	amod
28	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uniform	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 uniform	advmod
31	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tone	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tiring	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 tiring	advmod
34	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounded	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 fell	mark
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Tuk	amod
37	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tiring	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	43 sleep	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sleep	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sleep	amod
42	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sleep	compound
43	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 do	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 do	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 which	punct
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 bye	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bye	det
49	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 which	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 which	punct
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 do	advmod
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 sleep	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 do	obj
55	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	56 harm	det
56	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 do	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	grass				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	past	it	the noise of frogs		the same tone and uniform obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme
3	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	one		a moor	with great boots	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moor=Trajectory
4	fall	past	little Tuk			into a good sound sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result
5	not do	could	little Tuk not said here	a good sound sleep		by the bye	tree rules
6	noise		frogs				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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