Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 87
The Fowl who marched at the head of them had a long sight, and she spied the Caterpillar on the green leaf, and pecked at it, so that the Caterpillar fell on the ground, where it twisted and writhed.
Who acts: Fowl, head, Caterpillar, sight · What happens: march, have, spy, peck, fall, twist · To what, where: head, long sight, Caterpillar, green leaf, ground
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 (Fowl, head, Caterpillar, sight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fowl | det |
| 2 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 marched | nsubj |
| 4 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obl |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 head | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sight | amod |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spied | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spied | nsubj |
| 17 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marched | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Caterpillar | det |
| 19 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spied | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 leaf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leaf | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leaf | amod |
| 23 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spied | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pecked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pecked | cc |
| 26 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 marched | parataxis |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pecked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fell | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 fell | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Caterpillar | det |
| 33 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pecked | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 ground | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ground | det |
| 37 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 twisted | punct |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 twisted | advmod |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 twisted | nsubj |
| 41 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ground | acl:relcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 writhed | cc |
| 43 | writhed | writhe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 twisted | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | the Fowl | the head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the head not said here | a long sight | of people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | |||
| 3 | spy | past | Fowl | the Caterpillar | the green leaf | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caterpillar=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | peck | participle | at sight | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | the Caterpillar | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 6 | twist | past | sight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | writhe | past | sight not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: 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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