Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 18
In the swampy margin of a broad stream in the garden lived the toad, with her son.
Who acts: swampy margin · What happens: live · To what, where: toad
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swampy margin), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 margin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 margin | det |
| 3 | swampy | swampy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 margin | amod |
| 4 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 7 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 margin | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stream | nmod |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toad | det |
| 14 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the swampy margin of a broad stream in the garden | the toad | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme toad=Location |
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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