Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 18
But the roses would shake their heads, and say, "Eliza is."
Who acts: roses, Eliza · What happens: shake, say, be · To what, where: heads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (roses, Eliza), 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 shake | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roses | det |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shake | aux |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shake | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | would | the roses | roses's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the roses not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Eliza | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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