Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 85
She was quite disgusted at this sight, and seized a heavy stick to kill the frog; but the creature looked at her with such strange, mournful eyes, that she was unable to strike the blow.
Who acts: creature, infant · What happens: disgust, seize, kill, look, be, strike · To what, where: infant, sight, heavy stick, frog, blow
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 (creature, infant), 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 | 4 disgusted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disgusted | aux:pass |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 disgusted | advmod |
| 4 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disgusted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seized | cc |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disgusted | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stick | det |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stick | amod |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stick | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frog | det |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eyes | amod |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eyes | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 strange | punct |
| 29 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eyes | amod |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 unable | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 unable | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 unable | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unable | cop |
| 35 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looked | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 strike | mark |
| 37 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 unable | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 blow | det |
| 39 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 strike | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgust | past · passive | infant | this sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | a heavy stick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the frog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | the creature | at infant; with such strange mournful eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | infant | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | strike | to-infinitive | infant not said here | the blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
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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