Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 33
When the wicked queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut-juice, so that she was quite brown; then she tangled her beautiful hair and smeared it with disgusting ointment, till it was quite impossible to recognize the beautiful Eliza.
Who acts: wicked queen, queen · What happens: see, rub, be, tangle, smear, recognize · To what, where: this, face, beautiful hair, hair, beautiful Eliza
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 (wicked queen, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rubbed | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rubbed | nsubj |
| 9 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubbed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 juice | case |
| 13 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 juice | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 walnut | punct |
| 15 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brown | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 brown | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brown | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brown | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 brown | advmod |
| 22 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rubbed | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 tangled | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 tangled | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tangled | nsubj |
| 26 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rubbed | parataxis |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hair | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hair | amod |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tangled | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smeared | cc |
| 31 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tangled | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 smeared | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 ointment | case |
| 34 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ointment | amod |
| 35 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smeared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 impossible | punct |
| 37 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 impossible | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 impossible | expl |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 impossible | cop |
| 40 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 41 impossible | advmod |
| 41 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 smeared | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 recognize | mark |
| 43 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 impossible | csubj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Eliza | det |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Eliza | amod |
| 46 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 recognize | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the wicked queen | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | queen | queen's face | with walnut juice | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with juice=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | queen | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tangle | past | queen | queen's beautiful hair | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | smear | past | queen not said here | hair | with disgusting ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with ointment=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | recognize | to-infinitive | the beautiful Eliza | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eliza=Stimulus |
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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