Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 89
"It doesn't do that with a good will," thought the Fowl, and lifted up her head to peck at the Caterpillar.
Who acts: end, Fowl · What happens: not do, think, lift up, peck · To what, where: that, head · 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 (end, Fowl), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 will | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 good | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 will | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 will | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fowl | det |
| 15 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lifted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | cc |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 lifted | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 peck | mark |
| 23 | peck | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lifted | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Caterpillar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Caterpillar | det |
| 26 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 peck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present · do-support | end | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Fowl | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past | the Fowl not said here | Fowl's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | peck | to-infinitive | the Fowl not said here | at the Caterpillar | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at caterpillar=Patient |
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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