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title: The Toad was so horrified at this, that she came crawling straight u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Toad was so horrified at this, that she came crawling straight up towards the Fowl. Who acts: Toad, Fowl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 90

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The Toad was so horrified at this, that she came crawling straight up towards the Fowl.

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**Who acts:** Toad, Fowl · **What happens:** be, come, crawl · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, Fowl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:194:90
# text = The Toad was so horrified at this, that she came crawling straight up towards the Fowl.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	horrified	horrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Toad |  |  | this |  | horrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Fowl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl** | gerund | Fowl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the Fowl | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards fowl=Destination |

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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.

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**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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