Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 83

The shrivelled frog still sat in the corner alone.

Who acts: shrivelled frog · What happens: shrivell, sit · To what, where: corner

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 (shrivelled frog), 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	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 frog	amod
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivell	participle							tree rules
2	sit	past	the shrivelled frog			the corner	still	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

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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