Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 16
But at length they asked what it was that made them so proud, and what kind of a thing a jewel might be.
Who acts: Frogs, length · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: length
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 (Frogs, length), 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 asked | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 proud | advmod |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kind | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kind | cc |
| 16 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 17 kind | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thing | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kind | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 jewel | det |
| 22 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 be | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 be | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Frogs = frog | length | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | length | make, proud property | tree rules |
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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