Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 29

"Croak, croak, croak," was all her son could say for himself; so the toad took up the elegant little bed, and swam away with it, leaving Tiny all alone on the green leaf, where she sat and wept.

Who acts: Croak, toad · What happens: be, take up, swim away, leave, sit, weep · To what, where: elegant little bed, green leaf

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 (Croak, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct
2	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 croak	punct
4	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Croak	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 croak	punct
6	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Croak	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	14 say	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 say	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 toad	det
20	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
24	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bed	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bed	amod
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swam	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swam	cc
29	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 swam	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 swam	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leaving	punct
34	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 swam	advcl
35	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 leaving	xcomp
36	all	all	ADV	_	37 alone	advmod
37	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 leaving	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 leaf	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 leaf	det
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 leaf	amod
41	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaving	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sat	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 sat	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sat	nsubj
45	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 leaf	acl:relcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wept	cc
47	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 sat	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	Croak and croak and croak			for lay; all, say property	tree rules
2	take up	past	the toad	the elegant little bed			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
3	swim away	past	the toad not said here			with bed; away property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme
4	leave	gerund	the toad not said here		the green leaf	alone, tiny property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
5	sit	past	toad				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	past	toad not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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