Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 31

And as usual, when the sun set, and the transformation took place, both in body and mind, inwards and outwards, she would remain quiet and mournful, with her form shrunk together in the shape of a frog.

Who acts: transformation · What happens: take, remain, shrink, form · To what, where: place, body, form, shape

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transformation), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 when	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 usual	case
3	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 when	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 when	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 set	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	compound
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 when	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 transformation	det
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	acl:relcl
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 body	punct
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	18 body	cc:preconj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 body	case
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mind	cc
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 body	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 inwards	punct
22	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	18 body	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 outwards	cc
24	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	22 inwards	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 remain	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remain	aux
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	advcl
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 remain	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mournful	cc
31	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quiet	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 form	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 form	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 form	nmod:poss
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 quiet	obl
36	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 form	acl
37	together	together	ADV	_	36 shrunk	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 shape	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shape	det
40	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shrunk	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 frog	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 frog	det
43	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shape	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the transformation	place	body and mind		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in body=Location
2	remain	would	transformation			quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrink	participle		transformation's form not said here	the shape of a frog	together property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	form		transformation				nom form «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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