Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 100
They have learnt from the frogs to kick out with their hind legs, and row with their fore paws.
Who acts: people · What happens: learn, kick out · To what, where: row
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | aux |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 frogs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 frogs | det |
| 6 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learnt | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kick | mark |
| 8 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learnt | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 kick | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 legs | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legs | amod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kick | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 row | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 row | cc |
| 16 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kick | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 paws | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 paws | amod |
| 20 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kick | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | people | from the frogs | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from frog=Source | ||||
| 2 | kick out | to-infinitive | people not said here | row | with people's hind legs; with people's fore paws | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with leg=Instrument |
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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