Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 50

Yes, that it has," said she, and then, just as she was going to tell him a great many pretty stories from Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalom, she suddenly shrunk up together, and wagged her head as if she were a frog about to spring. "

Who acts: apron, grass · What happens: have, say, go, tell, shrunk up, wag · To what, where: great many pretty stories, Denmark, comedies, head, frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apron, grass), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 has	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 going	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stories	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 comedies	case
28	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 comedies	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Holberg	case
30	comedies	comedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stories	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shrunk	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 shrunk	cc
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 Waldemar	case
34	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 shrunk	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Absalom	cc
36	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Waldemar	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Waldemar	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shrunk	nsubj
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	40 shrunk	advmod
40	shrunk	shrunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 shrunk	compound:prt
42	together	together	ADV	_	40 shrunk	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wagged	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wagged	cc
45	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 head	nmod:poss
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wagged	obj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 frog	mark
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 frog	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 frog	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 frog	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 frog	det
53	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wagged	advcl
54	about	about	ADP	_	56 spring	case
55	to	to	PART	_	56 spring	mark
56	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 frog	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	apron						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	grass						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	past · progressive	grass				then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	grass not said here	a great many pretty stories	Denmark	Holberg's comedies			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
5	shrunk up in a quote	present	grass					about Waldemar and Absalom; suddenly, together property	tree rules
6	wag in a quote	past	grass not said here	grass's head					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	is a in a quote	past	grass	a frog			spring		tree rules

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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