Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 46

The waters of the Nile had retreated, and the whole bed of the river was covered with frogs, which was a most acceptable prospect for the stork families.

Who acts: frogs · What happens: retreat, cover, be · To what, where: waters, whole bed, acceptable prospect

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 (frogs), 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 waters	det
2	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retreated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Nile	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Nile	det
5	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waters	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 retreated	aux
7	retreated	retreat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 covered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 covered	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bed	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bed	amod
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 covered	aux:pass
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 retreated	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 frogs	case
19	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 prospect	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 prospect	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 prospect	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 prospect	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 acceptable	advmod
25	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 prospect	amod
26	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 frogs	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 families	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 families	det
29	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 families	compound
30	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 prospect	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 retreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retreat	past · perfect · passive		the waters of the Nile		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent
2	cover	past · passive		the whole bed of the river	with frogs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with frog=Theme
3	is a	past	frogs	a acceptable prospect	for the stork families	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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