Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 51

Croak," she cried; "it is always wet, and as quiet as death in Soroe."

Who acts: grass, apron · What happens: cry, be

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 (grass, apron), 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	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Croak	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 wet	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wet	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wet	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wet	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wet	advmod
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 quiet	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 quiet	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 quiet	advmod
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quiet	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Soroe	case
19	Soroe	Soroe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 quiet	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	grass					Croak vocative	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	apron					always, wet property	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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