Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 36
Her white mantle fluttered in the wind like a large sail, and the traveller flogged her with the three rods till the blood trickled down, and at last she could scarcely fly; she contrived, however, to reach the mountain. "
Who acts: white mantle, princess · What happens: flutter, flog, trickle down, fly, contrive, reach · To what, where: white mantle, wind, princess, blood, last, mountain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white mantle, princess), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mantle | amod |
| 3 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flogged | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mantle | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fluttered | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 sail | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sail | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sail | amod |
| 11 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wind | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flogged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flogged | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 traveller | det |
| 15 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flogged | nsubj |
| 16 | flogged | flog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flogged | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 rods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rods | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rods | nummod |
| 21 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flogged | obl |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blood | det |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rods | nmod |
| 25 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 blood | acl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 trickled | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fly | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fly | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fly | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fly | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 fly | aux |
| 33 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 34 fly | advmod |
| 34 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 flogged | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 contrived | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 contrived | nsubj |
| 37 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flogged | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 however | punct |
| 39 | however | however | ADV | _ | 37 contrived | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 reach | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 reach | mark |
| 42 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 contrived | ccomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mountain | det |
| 44 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 reach | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 reach | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | participle | princess's white mantle not said here | the wind like a large sail | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 2 | flog | past | princess's white mantle | princess | with the three rods till the blood | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with rod=Instrument | |||
| 3 | trickle down | participle | the blood not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | fly | could | princess | last | scarcely property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at last=Location | |||
| 5 | contrive | past | princess | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reach | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=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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