Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 6

But the new-comers seemed determined to stay where they were, for they found it very agreeable living "in a dry place," as they called the wet stones.

Who acts: new comers, comers · What happens: seem, stay, be, call · To what, where: dry place, wet stones · 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 (new comers, comers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 seemed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 comers	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 comers	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 new	punct
5	comers	comer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seemed	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 determined	xcomp
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 found	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 agreeable	advmod
19	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 living	amod
20	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 living	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 place	amod
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 called	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 called	nsubj
30	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stones	det
32	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stones	amod
33	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 called	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the new comers			determined property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive	the new comers not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	comers = comer		a dry place	find property	tree rules
4	call	past	comers = comer	the wet stones			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stone=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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