Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 12
"She's thick, and fat and ugly," said the young green Frogs; "and her children will be just as ugly as she is."
Who acts: Mother, young green Frogs, children · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mother, young green Frogs, children), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | cop |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fat | cc |
| 7 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thick | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ugly | cc |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thick | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Frogs | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Frogs | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Frogs | amod |
| 16 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ugly | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ugly | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 ugly | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ugly | cop |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 ugly | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 ugly | advmod |
| 26 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thick | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 is | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ugly | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mother | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Mother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young green Frogs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | Mother's children | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | Mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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