Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 37
After a while, it is quite certain the foster-mother began to love the poor frog, with its gentle eyes and its deep sighs, even better than the little beauty who bit and fought with all around her.
Who acts: coast, foster mother, little beauty · What happens: be, begin, love, bite, fight, sigh · To what, where: poor frog
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coast, foster mother, little beauty), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 certain | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 certain | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 certain | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 certain | advmod |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 10 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mother | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 foster | punct |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 certain | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 love | mark |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 frog | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 frog | amod |
| 18 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 love | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 love | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sighs | cc |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sighs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sighs | amod |
| 27 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eyes | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 better | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 better | advmod |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 love | conj |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 beauty | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beauty | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beauty | amod |
| 34 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 better | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 bit | nsubj |
| 36 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fought | cc |
| 38 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bit | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 42 her | advmod |
| 41 | around | around | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fought | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | coast | while | certain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the foster mother | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | the foster mother not said here | the poor frog | with coast's gentle eyes and coast's deep sighs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bite | past | the little beauty | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fight | past | the little beauty not said here | with mother | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | sigh | coast | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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