Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 36
Then poor Eliza wept, and thought of her eleven brothers, who were all away.
Who acts: poor Eliza, eleven brothers · What happens: weep, think, be
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 (poor Eliza, eleven brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14190): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wept | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Eliza | amod |
| 3 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 away | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 away | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | poor Eliza | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | poor Eliza not said here | of queen's eleven brothers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | queen's eleven brothers | all, away property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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