Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 30
She could not bear to think of living with the old toad, and having her ugly son for a husband.
Who acts: toad · What happens: not bear, think, live, have · To what, where: ugly son
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bear | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 living | mark |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 think | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 toad | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 toad | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 toad | amod |
| 12 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 having | cc |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 living | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 husband | det |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | toad | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | toad not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | toad not said here | with the old toad | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | toad not said here | toad's ugly son | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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