Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 29
"Ugh, you beast!" said the farm laborer who emptied the bucket, when he saw the toad. "
Who acts: you, beast, farm laborer · What happens: beast, say, empty, see · To what, where: farm laborer, bucket, toad · 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, beast, farm laborer), 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 | _ | 5 beast | punct |
| 2 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 5 beast | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ugh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beast | nsubj |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 beast | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beast | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 laborer | det |
| 10 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laborer | compound |
| 11 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 emptied | nsubj |
| 13 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laborer | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bucket | det |
| 15 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emptied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 toad | det |
| 21 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beast in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | beast | the farm laborer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent laborer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | empty | past | the farm laborer | the bucket | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bucket=Source | ||||
| 4 | see | past | beast | the toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus |
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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