Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 156

And the Mother-Stork began talking in the nest, and told about Egypt and the waters of the Nile, and the incomparable mud that was to be found in that strange land; and all this sounded new and very charming to the little Toad.

Who acts: Mother, this · What happens: begin, talk, tell, find, sound, charm · To what, where: nest, incomparable mud, strange land · 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 (Mother, this), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mother	det
3	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Stork	punct
5	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mother	appos
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 began	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 Egypt	case
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 waters	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waters	det
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Egypt	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Nile	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Nile	det
21	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 waters	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mud	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mud	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mud	det
25	incomparable	incomparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mud	amod
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 found	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux:pass
29	to	to	PART	_	31 found	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 mud	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 land	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 land	det
34	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 land	amod
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sounded	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sounded	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 sounded	det:predet
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 sounded	nsubj
40	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
41	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sounded	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 charming	cc
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 charming	advmod
44	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 sounded	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 Toad	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Toad	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Toad	amod
48	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 charming	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Mother				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	the Mother not said here		the nest		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Mother not said here	the incomparable mud		about Egypt and the waters of the Nile	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about egypt=Topic
4	find	past · passive	the Mother not said here	the incomparable mud	that strange land		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	sound	past	this			new property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	charm	gerund	this not said here			to the little Toad	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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