Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 152
We could do without them very well, so long as we only keep frogs and earth-worms."
Who acts: We · What happens: do, keep · To what, where: frogs
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 keep | advmod |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | advcl |
| 15 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worms | cc |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worms | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 earth | punct |
| 19 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 frogs | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | We | without men = man; long, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | we | frogs and earth worms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=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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