Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 59

How it sounded like the cry of the frogs on the moor, or like the creaking of great boots when some one is marching,--always the same tone, so monotonous and wearing, that little Tuk at length fell fast asleep, and then the sound could not annoy him.

Who acts: it, one, same tone, sound, frogs · What happens: sound, creak, march, wear, fall, not annoy · To what, where: tone

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 (it, one, same tone, sound), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sounded	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fell	advcl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cry	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cry	det
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounded	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 frogs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frogs	det
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 moor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moor	det
12	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frogs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 creaking	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 creaking	cc
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 creaking	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creaking	det
17	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sounded	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 boots	case
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boots	amod
20	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 creaking	obl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 marching	advmod
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marching	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 marching	aux
25	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 creaking	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sounded	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 tone	punct
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 tone	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tone	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tone	amod
31	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 monotonous	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 monotonous	advmod
34	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tone	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wearing	cc
36	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 monotonous	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Tuk	punct
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 Tuk	nsubj
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Tuk	amod
40	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 tone	appos
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 length	case
42	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Tuk	nmod
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
44	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 asleep	advmod
45	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fell	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 annoy	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 annoy	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 annoy	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sound	det
50	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 annoy	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 annoy	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 annoy	advmod
53	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 fell	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 annoy	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	it			like the cry of the frogs on the moor	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	creak	gerund				of great boots	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	march	present · progressive	some one				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wear	gerund	the same tone not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	fall	past	the same tone			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not annoy	could	the sound	tone	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	cry		the frogs on the moor				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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