Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 166
He had seen the Toad in the grass, and stooped down and seized the little creature anything but gently.
Who acts: stork · What happens: see, stoop down, seize · To what, where: Toad, grass, anything
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 (stork), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Toad | det |
| 5 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stooped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stooped | cc |
| 11 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 stooped | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seized | cc |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stooped | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 anything | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 anything | amod |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | compound |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 seized | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 gently | cc |
| 20 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 18 anything | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | stork | the Toad | the grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stoop down | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seize | past | anything | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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