Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 48

This animal barked at her so terribly that she became frightened, and rushed back to the open sea.

Who acts: turn, animal · What happens: bark, become, frighten, rush back · To what, where: animal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, animal), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 animal	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 barked	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 terribly	advmod
7	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 became	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terribly	advcl
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushed	cc
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 rushed	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sea	amod
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bark	participle		this animal not said here	at turn; terribly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus
2	become	past	turn			tree rules
3	frighten	participle	turn not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	rush back	past	this animal		to the open sea result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result

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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