Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 100
And the little Toad came up and expressed her sympathy.
Who acts: little Toad · What happens: come up, express · To what, where: sympathy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Toad), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Toad | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Toad | amod |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 expressed | cc |
| 8 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expressed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the little Toad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | express | past | the little Toad not said here | moon's sympathy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Theme |
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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