Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 86

Once more she searched round the room; then she started at hearing the frog utter a low, painful croak.

Who acts: infant · What happens: search, start, hear · To what, where: frog

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), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 searched	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searched	nsubj
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searched	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 started	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 started	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 searched	conj
12	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 hearing	mark
13	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 started	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 frog	det
15	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hearing	obj
16	utter	utter	ADP	_	21 croak	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 croak	det
18	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 croak	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 low	punct
20	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 croak	amod
21	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hearing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	infant			round the room	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	start	past	infant		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hear	gerund	infant not said here	the frog		utter a low painful croak	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus

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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