Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 88
The Fowl looked at it first with one eye and then with the other, for she did not know what the end of this writhing would be.
Who acts: Fowl, end · What happens: look, not know, be · 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 (Fowl, end), 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 | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 looked | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eye | nummod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 other | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 other | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 be | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 be | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 writhing | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 writhing | det |
| 26 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 end | nmod |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | aux |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Fowl | with one eye; at sight; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Fowl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | would | the end of this writhing | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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