Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 12
But she could not make them ugly as she wished, for they were turned into eleven beautiful wild swans.
Who acts: queen · What happens: not make, wish, turn · To what, where: birds, eleven beautiful wild swans
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 make | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 wished | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ugly | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | aux:pass |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 make | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 swans | case |
| 17 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 swans | nummod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 swans | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 swans | amod |
| 20 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 turned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | could | queen | birds = bird | ugly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | |||
| 2 | wish | past | queen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | birds = bird | eleven beautiful wild swans | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into swan=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/12/