Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 101
She was glad that in her ugliness she had frightened the fowls.
Who acts: moon · What happens: be, frighten · To what, where: moon, ugliness
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 (moon), 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 | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 frightened | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ugliness | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frightened | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frightened | aux |
| 10 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glad | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fowls | det |
| 12 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 frightened | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | moon | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · perfect · passive | moon | moon's ugliness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer fowl=Result |
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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