Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 65
And when the moon became round and full, the poor creature thought, "I wonder if that is the bucket which will be let down, and into which I must step to get higher up?
Who acts: moon, little Toad, that · What happens: become, wonder, be, let down, step, get up · To what, where: poor creature thought, bucket
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 (moon, little Toad, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wonder | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 became | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wonder | advcl |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 became | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 full | cc |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 round | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thought | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | compound |
| 13 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonder | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wonder | nsubj |
| 17 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 bucket | mark |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 bucket | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bucket | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bucket | det |
| 22 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wonder | ccomp |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 let | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | aux:pass |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 step | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 step | cc |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 step | obl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 step | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 step | aux |
| 34 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wonder | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 get | mark |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 step | xcomp |
| 37 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 get | xcomp |
| 38 | up | up | ADV | _ | 36 get | advmod |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the moon | the poor creature thought | round property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | the little Toad = toad | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | the bucket | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let down in a quote | future · passive | the bucket | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | step in a quote | must | the little Toad = toad | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get up in a quote | to-infinitive | the little Toad = toad not said here | high property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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