Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 28

The old toad bowed low to her in the water, and said, "Here is my son, he will be your husband, and you will live happily in the marsh by the stream."

Who acts: old toad, lay, you · What happens: bow, say, be, live · To what, where: daughter, water, husband, marsh · Speech: someone speaks here

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, lay, you), 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	3 toad	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toad	amod
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bowed	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
16	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	ccomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Here	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 husband	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 husband	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 husband	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 husband	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 live	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 live	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 live	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 live	aux
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bowed	conj
31	happily	happily	ADV	_	30 live	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 marsh	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 marsh	det
34	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 live	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 stream	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stream	det
37	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 live	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow	past	the old toad		daughter	the water	low property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present					here property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	future	lay	your husband				tree rules
5	live in a quote	future	you			the marsh	by the stream; happily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=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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