Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 61
"Now I shall resume my journey," said the little Toad; for she always felt a longing for something better.
Who acts: little Toad, plenty, my · What happens: resume, say, feel, journey · To what, where: journey, longing · 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 (little Toad, plenty, my), 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 | _ | 5 resume | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 resume | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 resume | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 resume | aux |
| 5 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resume | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 resume | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 resume | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Toad | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Toad | amod |
| 13 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 felt | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 longing | det |
| 20 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 something | case |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 felt | obl |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 something | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume in a quote | shall | the little Toad = toad | my journey | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little Toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | plenty | a longing | for something; always property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent longing=Location for something=Theme | |||
| 4 | journey in a quote | my | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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