Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 20
"Well, I haven't got the jewel," said the smallest of the Toads; she was as ugly as a toad can be. "
Who acts: I, light · What happens: not get, say, be · To what, where: jewel · 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 (I, light), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewel | det |
| 9 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smallest | det |
| 14 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Toads | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Toads | det |
| 17 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 smallest | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ugly | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ugly | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ugly | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 ugly | advmod |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 toad | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 toad | det |
| 25 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ugly | obl |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ugly | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | I | the jewel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jewel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | light | as a toad; ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | can | can | light not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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