Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 51
"It's a glorious thing to live! glorious to get out of the well, and to lie among the stinging-nettles, and to crawl along the dusty road.
Who acts: sound · What happens: be, live, get out, lie, crawl · To what, where: glorious thing, well, stinging nettles, dusty road
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 (sound), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 glorious | punct |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 live | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 glorious | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lie | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lie | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lie | mark |
| 20 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 live | conj |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 nettles | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nettles | det |
| 23 | stinging | stinging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nettles | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 stinging | punct |
| 25 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lie | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crawl | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 crawl | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 crawl | mark |
| 29 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 live | conj |
| 30 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 road | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 road | det |
| 32 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 road | amod |
| 33 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crawl | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | sound | a glorious thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | to-infinitive | the well | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | to-infinitive | the stinging nettles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among nettle=Location | |||||
| 5 | crawl in a quote | to-infinitive | the dusty road | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=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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