Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 50
Then the robbers, in terror, let her go, and she stood among them, a hideous monster; and as is the nature of frogs to do, she hopped up as high as her own size, and disappeared in the thicket.
Who acts: robbers, mouth · What happens: let, go, stand, be, do, hop up · To what, where: mouth, hideous monster, nature, thicket
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 (robbers, mouth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 robbers | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 let | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 terror | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robbers | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 robbers | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | advcl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 monster | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 monster | det |
| 19 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 monster | amod |
| 20 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 nature | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nature | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 nature | advmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 nature | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nature | det |
| 26 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 frogs | case |
| 28 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 nature | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 nature | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hopped | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hopped | nsubj |
| 33 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | parataxis |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 hopped | compound:prt |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 high | advmod |
| 36 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hopped | xcomp |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 size | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 size | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 size | amod |
| 40 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 high | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 disappeared | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disappeared | cc |
| 43 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hopped | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 thicket | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 thicket | det |
| 46 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 disappeared | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the robbers and terror | mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | mouth not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | mouth | a hideous monster | among robbers = robber | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among they=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the nature | of frogs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the robbers and terror not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hop up | past | mouth | high property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | disappear | past | mouth not said here | the thicket | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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