Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 131

"But is there not something beautiful in the popular belief that just as the toad is the ugliest of animals, it should often carry the most precious jewel in its head?

Who acts: that, belief · What happens: not be, be, carry · To what, where: something, precious jewel, head

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 (that, belief), 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	_	6 something	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 something	cc
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 something	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 something	advmod
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 belief	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 belief	det
10	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 belief	amod
11	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beautiful	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ugliest	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	19 ugliest	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 ugliest	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 toad	det
16	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ugliest	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ugliest	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ugliest	det
19	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 belief	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 animals	case
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ugliest	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carry	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carry	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 carry	aux
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 carry	advmod
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 jewel	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 precious	advmod
29	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 jewel	amod
30	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present		something			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that			of animals; ugly property	tree rules
3	carry in a quote	should	belief	the precious jewel	belief's head	often property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jewel=Value in head=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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