Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 142
Listen how their jaws are wagging; and for all that they can't clap properly.
Who acts: you, jaws · What happens: listen, wag, not clap
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 (you, jaws), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 wagging | advmod |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 4 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wagging | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wagging | aux |
| 6 | wagging | wag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Listen | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 clap | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clap | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 that | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 clap | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 clap | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 clap | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 clap | advmod |
| 15 | clap | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Listen | conj |
| 16 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 15 clap | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wag | present · progressive | men's jaws | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not clap | can | jaws = jaw | for that; properly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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