Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 23
Early one morning the queen went into the bath-room; it was built of marble, and had soft cushions, trimmed with the most beautiful tapestry.
Who acts: queen · What happens: go, build, have, trim · To what, where: bath room, room, soft cushions
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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 room | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bath | punct |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 built | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 built | aux:pass |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 marble | case |
| 17 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cushions | amod |
| 22 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trimmed | punct |
| 24 | trimmed | trim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cushions | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 tapestry | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tapestry | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tapestry | amod |
| 29 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trimmed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the queen | the bath room | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | room | of marble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the queen not said here | soft cushions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | trim | participle | soft cushions not said here | with the beautiful tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tapestry=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/23/