Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 54

She looked at them with eyes that seemed to weep, and from the frog's head came forth a croaking sound, as when a child bursts into tears.

Who acts: moon, eyes, child · What happens: look, seem, weep, come, croak, burst · To what, where: croaking sound, head, tears

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 (moon, eyes, child), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eyes	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 weep	mark
10	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 head	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 frog	det
15	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 frog	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
21	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sound	amod
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bursts	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 bursts	mark
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 bursts	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bursts	nsubj
28	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 tears	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bursts	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	moon			at robbers = robber; with eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	seem	past	eyes				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	weep	to-infinitive	eyes not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past		a croaking sound	the frog's head	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location
5	croak	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	burst	present	a child		tears		vn appear-48.1.1 «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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