Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 52
Then little Tuk saw she was changed into a frog. "
Who acts: little Tuk · What happens: see, change · To what, where: grass · 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 (little Tuk), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tuk | amod |
| 3 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | aux:pass |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 frog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 frog | det |
| 10 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | little Tuk | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | grass | into a frog result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into frog=Result |
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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