Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 89

The limbs moved and stretched out and extended themselves till they took a beautiful shape; and behold there was the pretty child lying before her, and the ugly frog was gone. "

Who acts: limbs, pretty child, ugly frog · What happens: move, stretch out, extend, take, be, lie · To what, where: limbs, beautiful shape, pretty child

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 (limbs, pretty child, ugly frog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 limbs	det
2	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stretched	cc
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 moved	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stretched	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 extended	cc
8	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stretched	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 extended	obj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 took	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 extended	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shape	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shape	amod
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 child	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
18	behold	behold	INTJ	_	20 was	discourse
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 child	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
22	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 child	amod
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
24	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 child	acl
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 frog	det
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 frog	amod
31	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	cop
33	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moved	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the limbs				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	participle	the limbs not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	extend	past	the limbs not said here	limbs = limb			vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	take	past	limbs = limb	a beautiful shape			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
5	is a	past		the pretty child			tree rules
6	lie	gerund	the pretty child not said here		before frog		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
7	is	past	the ugly frog			gone property	tree rules

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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