Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 43

Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh.

Who acts: frogs · What happens: begin, croak · To what, where: marsh

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frogs), 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	4 began	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 frogs	det
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 croak	mark
6	croak	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 croak	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	some frogs				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	croak	to-infinitive	some frogs not said here			the marsh			vn animal_sounds-38 «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: «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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