Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 55
She came out into the open field, to a great pond, round about which grew reeds; and she walked into it.
Who acts: dust · What happens: come out, grow, walk · To what, where: open field, reeds, pond
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 (dust), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 field | amod |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pond | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pond | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pond | amod |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 grew | mark |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 18 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walked | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | dust | the open field | to a great pond; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | reeds | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | dust | pond | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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