Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 14
And the water boiled and bubbled, as the mouse-king stood close beside the kettle.
Who acts: mouse king · What happens: boil, bubble, stand · To what, where: water, kettle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse king), 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 | _ | 4 boiled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bubbled | cc |
| 6 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boiled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 stood | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouse | punct |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boiled | conj |
| 14 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 kettle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kettle | det |
| 17 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | participle · passive | the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bubble | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | the mouse king | the kettle | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside kettle=Location |
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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