Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 43

The Toad thought it was a flower which had broken loose that it might look about better in the world, which was quite a natural thing to do.

Who acts: Toad, butterfly, world · What happens: think, be, break, look, do · To what, where: flower, natural thing · 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 (Toad, butterfly, world), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flower	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flower	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flower	acl:relcl
11	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 broken	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 look	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 look	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 loose	advcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 look	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 better	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 thing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
24	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	27 thing	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thing	det
26	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 world	appos
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thing	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Toad			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	butterfly	a flower		tree rules
3	break	past · perfect · passive		a flower	loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	look	might	butterfly		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	past	the world	quite natural thing		tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	butterfly not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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