Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 49

A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became thin and slimy; while broad hands, with webbed fingers, spread themselves out like fans.

Who acts: greenish white mouth, arms, broad hands · What happens: spread, become, web, spread out · To what, where: face, arms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greenish white mouth, arms, broad hands), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouth	det
2	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 spread	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	parataxis
14	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slimy	cc
16	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thin	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 spread	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 spread	mark
19	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fingers	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 fingers	case
23	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fingers	amod
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fingers	punct
26	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 spread	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 spread	compound:prt
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 fans	case
30	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past	a greenish white mouth		mouth's face	half property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Location
2	become	past	mouth's arms			thin property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	web	participle					tree rules
4	spread out	past	broad hands	arms = arm		like fans	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme

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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