Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 92
Then she kissed it and fondled it; but the child struggled and fought, and bit as if she had been a little wild cat.
Who acts: frog, child · What happens: kiss, fondle, struggle, fight, be · To what, where: dream, bit
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 (frog, child), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fondled | cc |
| 6 | fondled | fondle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fondled | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 struggled | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 struggled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struggled | nsubj |
| 12 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fought | cc |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struggled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bit | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bit | cc |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struggled | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 cat | case |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 cat | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cat | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cat | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 cat | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cat | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cat | amod |
| 25 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cat | amod |
| 26 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struggled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | frog | dream | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fondle | past | frog not said here | dream | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | struggle | past | the child | bit | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fight | past | the child not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | frog | as a little wild cat | 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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