Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 88
Suddenly it appeared as if the frog's broad mouth contracted, and became small and red.
Who acts: it · What happens: appear, contract, become · To what, where: broad mouth
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 (it), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 mouth | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 frog | det |
| 7 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 frog | case |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mouth | amod |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 11 | contracted | contract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mouth | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 red | cc |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 small | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | it | as the frog's broad mouth; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contract | participle | the frog's broad mouth not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | become | past | small property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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