Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 75
The ugly frog, in its monstrous shape, stood before her, and raised its brown mournful eyes to her face, listening to her words, and seeming to understand them with the intelligence of a human being.
Who acts: ugly frog, Helga · What happens: stand, raise, listen, seem, understand, word · To what, where: brown mournful eyes, face, eyes
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 (ugly frog, Helga), 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 | 3 frog | det |
| 2 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frog | amod |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shape | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shape | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shape | amod |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frog | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 frog | punct |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 raised | cc |
| 15 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 18 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 raised | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 listening | punct |
| 24 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 raised | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 words | nmod:poss |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 listening | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seeming | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 seeming | cc |
| 30 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 understand | mark |
| 32 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seeming | xcomp |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 understand | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 intelligence | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 intelligence | det |
| 36 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 understand | obl |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 human | mark |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 human | det |
| 39 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 intelligence | acl |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 human | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the ugly frog and frog's monstrous shape | before Helga | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | the ugly frog and frog's monstrous shape not said here | frog's brown mournful eyes | Helga's face | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to face=Destination | |||
| 3 | listen | gerund | the ugly frog and frog's monstrous shape not said here | to Helga's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | gerund | the ugly frog and frog's monstrous shape not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | understand | to-infinitive | the ugly frog and frog's monstrous shape not said here | eyes = eye | with the intelligence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | word | Helga | nom word «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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