Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 7
And then the witch laughed so loud and disgustingly, that the toad and the snakes fell to the ground, and lay there wriggling about. "
Who acts: witch, toad · What happens: laugh, fall, lay, wriggle
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 (witch, toad), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 laughed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 loud | advmod |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disgustingly | cc |
| 9 | disgustingly | disgustingly | ADV | _ | 7 loud | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fell | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 toad | det |
| 13 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snakes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snakes | det |
| 16 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 toad | conj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lay | cc |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fell | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lay | advmod |
| 25 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 lay | advcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 wriggling | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the witch | then | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the toad and the snakes | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | the toad and the snakes not said here | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wriggle | gerund | the toad and the snakes not said here | about property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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