Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 37
Sorrowfully, she stole away from the palace, and walked, the whole day, over fields and moors, till she came to the great forest.
Who acts: queen · What happens: steal away, walk, come · To what, where: palace, fields, great forest
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 | Sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 4 stole | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 stole | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fields | punct |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 fields | case |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 moors | cc |
| 20 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fields | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forest | amod |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past | queen | the palace | away, sorrowfully property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | queen not said here | fields and moors | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | queen | the great forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location |
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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