Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 49
Perhaps a little toad or a few green frogs.
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: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 toad | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 toad | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toad | amod |
| 4 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 frogs | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 frogs | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 frogs | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 frogs | amod |
| 9 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 toad | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 toad | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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