Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 76

She took a few steps, such as a crawling animal may take, and soon found herself on a road beside which people dwelt; but there were flower gardens as well as kitchen gardens.

Who acts: sun, crawling animal, people, flower gardens · What happens: take, find, dwell, be · To what, where: few steps, animal, 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 (sun, crawling animal, people, flower gardens), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 steps	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	13 take	mark
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	crawling	crawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	compound
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 steps	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 found	advmod
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 found	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 road	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dwelt	obl
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dwelt	nsubj
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 road	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 were	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gardens	compound
31	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 gardens	cc
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	as	as	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gardens	compound
36	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	sun	a few steps			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	take	may	a crawling animal	a few steps not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
3	find	past	sun not said here	animal	a road	soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
4	dwell	past	people		a road		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside which=Location
5	be	past	flower gardens		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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