Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 29

As Eliza dipped her head under the water, one of the toads sat on her hair, a second on her forehead, and a third on her breast, but she did not seem to notice them, and when she rose out of the water, there were three red poppies floating upon it.

Who acts: Eliza, queen, three red poppies · What happens: dip, sit, not seem, notice, rise, be · To what, where: head, water, third, hair, heads

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 (Eliza, queen, three red poppies), 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 dipped	mark
2	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dipped	nsubj
3	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dipped	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dipped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dipped	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 toads	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toads	det
13	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 second	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hair	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 forehead	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 forehead	nmod:poss
23	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 second	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 third	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 third	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 third	det
27	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 breast	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 breast	nmod:poss
30	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 third	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seem	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 seem	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 seem	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seem	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 seem	advmod
36	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 notice	mark
38	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 seem	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 notice	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rose	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rose	cc
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 rose	advmod
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 rose	nsubj
44	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	48 water	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rose	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 were	punct
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 were	expl
51	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rose	conj
52	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 poppies	nummod
53	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 poppies	amod
54	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 were	nsubj
55	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 poppies	acl
56	upon	upon	ADP	_	57 it	case
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 floating	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dip	past	Eliza	queen's head	the water	one of the toads obl	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Trajectory
2	sit	past		a third on queen's breast	queen's hair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hair=Location
3	not seem	past · do-support	queen				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	notice	to-infinitive	queen not said here	heads = head			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	rise	past	queen		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location
6	be	past	three red poppies		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	float	gerund	three red poppies not said here		water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=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.

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