Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 81

The princess shrieked aloud when he dipped her under the water the first time, and struggled under his hands in the form of a great black swan with fiery eyes.

Who acts: princess, John · What happens: shriek, dip, struggle, form · To what, where: princess, water, hands, great black swan

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 (princess, John), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrieked	nsubj
3	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	3 shrieked	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dipped	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dipped	nsubj
7	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shrieked	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dipped	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dipped	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dipped	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 struggled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 struggled	cc
17	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shrieked	conj
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 struggled	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 form	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 form	det
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struggled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 swan	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 swan	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swan	amod
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swan	amod
28	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 form	nmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 eyes	amod
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 swan	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	the princess				aloud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	dip	past	John	princess	the water	time		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme under water=Trajectory
3	struggle	past	the princess not said here		John's hands		in the form of a great black swan with fiery eyes	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	form			a great black swan with fiery eyes				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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