Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 4

They had, in fact, come head-over-heels down the well, in the person of the old Mother-Toad, who was still alive.

Who acts: things, Toad · What happens: have, come, be · To what, where: head, fact

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 (things, Toad), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 heels	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 over	punct
12	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 well	det
15	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 person	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Mother	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mother	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Mother	amod
23	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 person	nmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Toad	punct
25	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mother	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 alive	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 alive	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 alive	advmod
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Toad	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	things = thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive		head	fact		over heels; down the well; in the person of the old Mother	tree rules
3	is	past	Toad			still	alive property	tree rules

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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