Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 14
The young frogs listened and stared; and as these words did not please them, they made grimaces and dived down under the water.
Who acts: young frogs, words, Frogs · What happens: listen, stare, not please, make, dive down · To what, where: Frogs, grimaces, water
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 (young frogs, words, Frogs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 frogs | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frogs | amod |
| 3 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stared | cc |
| 6 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 please | mark |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 words | det |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 please | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 please | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 please | advmod |
| 14 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 please | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 please | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 19 | grimaces | grimace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dived | cc |
| 21 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 dived | compound:prt |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dived | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the young frogs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | the young frogs not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not please | past · do-support | this words | Frogs = frog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Frogs = frog | grimaces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grimace=Product | ||||
| 5 | dive down | past | Frogs = frog not said here | the water | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=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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