Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 8

She happened to be in the water-bucket when it was drawn up, but the light became too strong for her, and she got a pain in her eyes.

Who acts: Mother, light · What happens: happen, be, draw up, become, get · To what, where: water bucket, bucket, pain, eyes

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 (Mother, light), 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 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	9 bucket	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bucket	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 bucket	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bucket	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bucket	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
9	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	advcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 drawn	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drawn	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drawn	aux:pass
13	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happened	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 drawn	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 strong	advmod
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 strong	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pain	det
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 eyes	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Mother				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Mother not said here		the water bucket		tree rules
3	draw up	past · passive		bucket			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	become	past	the light			strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	get	past	Mother	a pain	Mother's eyes		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus

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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