Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 26
And it's not every one who falls so cleverly as I did, and gets away with whole legs and whole bones.
Who acts: care, one, I · What happens: not be, fall, do, get away · To what, where: one
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 (care, one, I), 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 one | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | advmod |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 falls | nsubj |
| 8 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 cleverly | advmod |
| 10 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 8 falls | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 falls | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gets | cc |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 falls | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 gets | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 legs | amod |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gets | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bones | cc |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bones | amod |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 legs | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | care | every one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | every one | cleverly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get away | present | every one not said here | with whole legs and whole bones; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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