Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 30

Every moment the witch threw something else into the vessel, and when it began to boil, the sound was like the weeping of a crocodile.

Who acts: moment, vessel, sound · What happens: throw, begin, boil, be · To what, where: something, vessel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (moment, vessel, sound), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 threw	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 vessel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vessel	det
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 began	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 boil	mark
17	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weeping	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weeping	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 weeping	cop
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 weeping	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 weeping	det
24	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boil	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 crocodile	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crocodile	det
27	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weeping	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	every moment	something	into the vessel result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer something=Theme into vessel=Result
2	begin	past	vessel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	boil	to-infinitive	vessel not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the sound		like the weeping; of a crocodile	tree rules

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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