Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 15

But the little Toads kicked up their hind legs from mere pride, for each of them thought that he must have the jewel; and then they sat and held their heads quite still.

Who acts: little Toads, each, Toad, Frogs · What happens: kick up, think, have, sit, hold · To what, where: hind legs, jewel, heads · 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 (little Toads, each, Toad, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 kicked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Toads	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Toads	amod
4	Toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kicked	nsubj
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 kicked	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kicked	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 pride	case
11	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pride	amod
12	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 thought	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kicked	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jewel	det
24	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 sat	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kicked	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 held	cc
31	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sat	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 held	obj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 still	advmod
35	still	still	ADV	_	31 held	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kick up	past	the little Toads	Frogs's hind legs		from mere pride	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient from pride=Co-Patient
2	think speech: other	past	each				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	must	Toad	the jewel			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient
4	sit	past	Frogs = frog		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	past	Frogs = frog not said here	Frogs's heads	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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