Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 84

She sprang from her couch, lighted a pine-chip, and searched all round the room, when, at last, in that part of the bed where her feet had been, lay, not the child, but a great, ugly frog.

Who acts: infant, couch · What happens: spring, light, search · To what, where: great ugly frog, couch, pine chip, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infant, couch), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 couch	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 couch	nmod:poss
5	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lighted	punct
7	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 couch	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chip	det
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chip	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 pine	punct
11	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lighted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 searched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 searched	cc
14	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	18 room	advmod
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 searched	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 last	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 room	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 part	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 part	det
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 searched	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 been	advmod
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 been	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 been	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 bed	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
37	lay	lay	INTJ	_	27 part	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 child	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 child	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 child	det
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 frog	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 frog	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 frog	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 frog	amod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 great	punct
47	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 frog	amod
48	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spring	past	infant	a great ugly frog	infant's couch	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory
2	light	participle	infant's couch not said here	a pine chip		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Product
3	search	past	infant not said here	the room		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent room=Location

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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