Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 90
The Toad was so horrified at this, that she came crawling straight up towards the Fowl.
Who acts: Toad, Fowl · What happens: be, come, crawl · To what, where: this
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 (Toad, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Toad | det |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 horrified | advmod |
| 5 | horrified | horrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 horrified | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | conj |
| 12 | crawling | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | xcomp |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 crawling | advmod |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 Fowl | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fowl | det |
| 17 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crawling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Toad | this | horrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Fowl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crawl | gerund | Fowl not said here | towards the Fowl | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards fowl=Destination |
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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