Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 57

The female young ones strutted about amid the moist rushes, glancing at the other young storks and making acquaintances, and swallowing a frog at every third step, or tossing a little snake about with their beaks, in a way they considered very becoming, and besides it tasted very good.

Who acts: female young ones, frogs, gravely · What happens: strut, glance, make, swallow, toss, consider · To what, where: moist rushes, acquaintances, frog, little snake, way

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 (female young ones, frogs, gravely), 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	4 ones	det
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	strutted	strut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ones	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 amid	case
7	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strutted	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rushes	det
9	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rushes	amod
10	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strutted	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glancing	punct
12	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 strutted	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 storks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 storks	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 storks	amod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 storks	amod
17	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 glancing	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 making	cc
19	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 glancing	conj
20	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 making	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swallowing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 swallowing	cc
23	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 glancing	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 frog	det
25	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swallowing	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 step	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 step	det
28	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 step	amod
29	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swallowing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tossing	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 tossing	cc
32	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 swallowing	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 snake	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 snake	amod
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tossing	obj
36	about	about	ADV	_	32 tossing	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 beaks	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 beaks	nmod:poss
39	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tossing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 way	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 way	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beaks	appos
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 considered	nsubj
45	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 way	acl:relcl
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 becoming	advmod
47	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 considered	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 tasted	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 tasted	cc
50	besides	besides	ADP	_	52 tasted	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 tasted	nsubj
52	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swallowing	conj
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 good	advmod
54	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tasted	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strut	participle	the female young ones not said here	the moist rushes	about amid	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about amid=Trajectory
2	glance	gerund	the female young ones not said here		at the other young storks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stork=Theme
3	make	gerund	the female young ones not said here	acquaintances		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product
4	swallow	gerund	the female young ones not said here	a frog	at every third step	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient
5	toss	gerund	the female young ones not said here	a little snake	with frogs's beaks; about property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Product with beak=Material
6	consider	past	frogs = frog	a way not said here		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute
7	become	gerund	frogs = frog not said here			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	taste	past	gravely		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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