Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 1

Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was really the good food, especially the quantities of frogs, which seemed to spring out of the ground in swarms.

Who acts: Joy, chief cause, quantities · What happens: reign, be, seem, spring out · To what, where: whole house, good food, ground, swarms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joy, chief cause, quantities), 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	Joy	Joy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reigned	nsubj
2	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reigned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nest	punct
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 nest	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 nest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stork	det
13	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nest	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 stork	case
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reigned	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 food	punct
17	although	although	SCONJ	_	18 there	case
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 food	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cause	det
20	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cause	amod
21	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 food	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 food	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	26 food	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 food	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 food	amod
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reigned	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 quantities	punct
28	especially	especially	ADV	_	30 quantities	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 quantities	det
30	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 food	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 frogs	case
32	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 quantities	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 quantities	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 spring	mark
37	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 seemed	xcomp
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 ground	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 ground	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spring	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 swarms	case
43	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 spring	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reign	past	Joy		the whole house	in the stork's nest	tree rules
2	is a	past	the chief cause	the good food and the quantities of frogs			tree rules
3	seem	past	the quantities of frogs				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	spring out	to-infinitive	the quantities of frogs not said here	the ground	swarms		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ground=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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