Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 32
Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this account it was much more hideous in appearance; for she looked like a wretched dwarf, with a frog's head, and webbed fingers.
Who acts: body, animals, set, transformation · What happens: be, look, web · To what, where: account, webbed fingers
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 (body, animals, set, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 larger | advmod |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 animals | det |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 are | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hideous | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hideous | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 account | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 account | det |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hideous | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hideous | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hideous | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 hideous | advmod |
| 20 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 are | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 appearance | case |
| 22 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hideous | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 looked | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 dwarf | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dwarf | det |
| 29 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dwarf | amod |
| 30 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 head | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 frog | det |
| 34 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 frog | case |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fingers | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fingers | cc |
| 39 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fingers | amod |
| 40 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looked | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | transformation's body | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | that animals | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | set | this account | in appearance; hideous property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | past | transformation | webbed fingers | like a wretched dwarf; with a frog's head | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | web | participle | 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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