Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 175

Think! the Caterpillar is changed, and turns into a beautiful butterfly; the Stork family flies over mountains and seas, to the distant Africa, and yet finds the shortest way home to the same country--to the same roof.

Who acts: you, Stork family · What happens: think, change, turn, fly, find · To what, where: Caterpillar, mountains, shortest way · 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 (you, Stork family), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caterpillar	det
4	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 changed	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux:pass
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Think	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turns	cc
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 butterfly	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 butterfly	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 butterfly	amod
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 flies	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
16	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 family	compound
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flies	nsubj
18	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 mountains	case
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flies	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seas	cc
22	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mountains	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Africa	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 Africa	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Africa	det
26	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Africa	amod
27	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 flies	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 finds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 finds	cc
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 finds	advmod
31	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 flies	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
33	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 way	amod
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 finds	obj
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 way	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 country	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 country	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 country	amod
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 finds	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 roof	punct
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 roof	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 roof	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 roof	amod
44	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 finds	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	change	present · passive		the Caterpillar				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	turn	present					into a beautiful butterfly result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Result
4	fly	present	the Stork family		mountains and seas		to the distant Africa	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location
5	find	present	the Stork family not said here	the shortest way		yet	to the same country; to the same roof	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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