Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 19

He was uglier even than his mother, and when he saw the pretty little maiden in her elegant bed, he could only cry, "Croak, croak, croak."

Who acts: margin · What happens: be, see, cry · To what, where: Croak

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 uglier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 uglier	cop
3	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 mother	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uglier	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 uglier	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
16	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 bed	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bed	nmod:poss
19	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bed	amod
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maiden	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cry	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cry	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cry	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 cry	advmod
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Croak	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Croak	punct
28	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cry	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 croak	punct
30	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Croak	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 croak	punct
32	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Croak	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uglier	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 uglier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	margin		than margin's mother; ugly property	tree rules
2	see	past	margin		maiden property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	could	margin	Croak and croak and croak		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=Topic

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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