Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 9
Fortunately she scrambled out of the bucket; but she fell into the water with a terrible flop, and had to lie sick for three days with pains in her back.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: scramble, fall, have, lie · To what, where: bucket, water
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), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 3 scrambled | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scrambled | nsubj |
| 3 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bucket | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bucket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bucket | det |
| 7 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrambled | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrambled | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flop | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flop | det |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flop | amod |
| 18 | flop | flop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lie | mark |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lie | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 days | nummod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lie | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 pains | case |
| 29 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lie | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pains | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | past | Mother | the bucket | fortunately property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bucket=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Mother | into the water result; with a terrible flop | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | day | with pains in Mother's back; sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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