Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 5
The green Frogs, who had been established there a long time, and swam about in the water, called them "well-guests."
Who acts: green Frogs, water · What happens: establish, swim, call · To what, where: green Frogs, water, Frogs · 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 (green Frogs, water), 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 | 3 Frogs | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Frogs | amod |
| 3 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 established | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 established | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 established | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 established | aux:pass |
| 8 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Frogs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 established | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 established | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swam | cc |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 swam | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 water | acl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 guests | punct |
| 24 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 26 guests | discourse |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 called | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · perfect · passive | the green Frogs | there | time | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | swim | past | the green Frogs | the water | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the water not said here | Frogs = frog | guests obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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