Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 23

The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and the old toad swam out to it with the walnut-shell, in which little Tiny lay still asleep.

Who acts: largest leaves, old toad · What happens: appear, swim out · To what, where: rest

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 (largest leaves, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 leaves	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 largest	nmod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 appeared	advmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 farther	compound:prt
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farther	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swam	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swam	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 toad	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 toad	amod
16	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swam	nsubj
17	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 swam	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swam	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 shell	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shell	det
23	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shell	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 walnut	punct
25	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swam	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 asleep	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 asleep	obl
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	amod
30	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	amod
31	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asleep	nsubj
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 asleep	advmod
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swam	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the largest leaves					far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim out	past	the old toad			rest		with the walnut shell; out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination

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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