Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 5
The magician then opened the mountain and she flew home again, but the traveller followed and flogged her so much with the rod, that she sighed quite deeply about the heavy hail-storm, and made as much haste as she could to get back to her bedroom through the window.
Who acts: magician, princess, traveller · What happens: open, fly, follow, flog, sigh, make · To what, where: mountain, princess, much haste, window
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 (magician, princess, traveller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 followed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 followed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 traveller | det |
| 15 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flogged | cc |
| 18 | flogged | flog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flogged | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 flogged | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rod | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rod | det |
| 24 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flogged | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sighed | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 sighed | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sighed | nsubj |
| 28 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 flogged | conj |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 deeply | advmod |
| 30 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 28 sighed | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 storm | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 storm | det |
| 33 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 storm | amod |
| 34 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 storm | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 hail | punct |
| 36 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sighed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 much | advmod |
| 41 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 haste | amod |
| 42 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 get | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 get | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 get | aux |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 get | mark |
| 47 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | advcl |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 47 get | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 bedroom | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 51 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 back | obl |
| 52 | through | through | ADP | _ | 54 window | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 window | det |
| 54 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 get | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the magician | the mountain | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | princess | again | home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the traveller | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flog | past | the magician not said here | princess | with the rod | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with rod=Instrument | |||
| 5 | sigh | past | princess | about the heavy hail storm; deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about storm=Topic | ||||
| 6 | make | past | the magician not said here | much haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 7 | get back | could | princess | the window | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Destination |
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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