Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 82
As she rose the second time from the water, the swan had become white, with a black ring round its neck.
Who acts: princess, swan · What happens: rise, become · To what, where: water
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, swan), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rose | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swan | det |
| 12 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | aux |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 become | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ring | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ring | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ring | amod |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | parataxis |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ring | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | princess | the water | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | the swan | white property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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