Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 32

As soon as they caught sight of her, they saw she was very pretty, and it made them very sorry to think that she must go and live with the ugly toads. "

Who acts: fishes, toad, sight · What happens: catch, see, be, make, think, go · To what, where: sight, fishes, toad · 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 (fishes, toad, sight), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 caught	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 caught	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sight	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pretty	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pretty	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 pretty	advmod
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 saw	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 sorry	advmod
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sorry	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 think	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 live	cc
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 toads	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 toads	det
33	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 toads	amod
34	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 live	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	fishes = fish	sight of toad	soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	see	past	fishes = fish			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	toad		pretty property	tree rules
4	make	past	sight	fishes = fish	sorry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	sight not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	go	must	toad			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	live	infinitive	toad not said here		with the ugly toads	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location
8	sight			toad		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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