Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 38

And so she crawled on as fast as she could crawl, and got out upon the highway, where the sun shone upon her, and the dust powdered her all over as she marched across the way.

Who acts: Mother, sun, dust · What happens: crawl, get out, shine, powder, march · To what, where: sun, way

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 (Mother, sun, dust), 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	_	4 crawled	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 crawled	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crawled	nsubj
4	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 crawled	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 crawled	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 crawl	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crawl	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 crawl	aux
11	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fast	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crawled	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 highway	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 highway	det
18	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shone	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 shone	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shone	nsubj
23	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 highway	acl:relcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 powdered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 powdered	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dust	det
29	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 powdered	nsubj
30	powdered	powder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crawled	parataxis
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 powdered	obj
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 over	advmod
33	over	over	ADV	_	30 powdered	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 marched	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 marched	nsubj
36	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 powdered	advcl
37	across	across	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 marched	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	Mother			fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crawl	could	Mother				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get out	past				upon the highway; out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shine	past	the sun			upon Mother	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
5	powder	past	the dust	sun		over property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	march	past	dust		the way		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across way=Trajectory

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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