Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 25

Meanwhile the old toad was very busy under the marsh, decking her room with rushes and wild yellow flowers, to make it look pretty for her new daughter-in-law.

Who acts: old toad, room · What happens: be, deck, make, look · To what, where: marsh, room

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 (old toad, room), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 toad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toad	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 busy	advmod
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 marsh	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decking	punct
12	decking	deck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 busy	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 room	nmod:poss
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decking	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 rushes	case
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 decking	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rushes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 busy	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	34 law	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 law	nmod:poss
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 law	amod
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 law	nsubj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 law	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 law	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 in	punct
34	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old toad		the marsh	busy property	tree rules
2	deck	gerund	the old toad not said here	toad's room		with rushes and wild yellow flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent room=Destination with rush=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	the old toad not said here	room			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	room not said here			for toad's new law; pretty property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for law=Theme

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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