Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 44
She saw them writing with their diamond pencils on golden slates, while she looked at the beautiful picture-book which had cost half a kingdom.
Who acts: light, insects, beautiful picture book · What happens: see, write, look, cost · To what, where: insects, kingdom
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 (light, insects, beautiful picture book), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pencils | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pencils | nmod:poss |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pencils | compound |
| 8 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 writing | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 slates | case |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slates | amod |
| 11 | slates | slate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pencils | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 looked | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 book | amod |
| 19 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 book | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 picture | punct |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 cost | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cost | aux |
| 24 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 book | acl:relcl |
| 25 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 27 kingdom | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | light | insects = insect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | gerund | insects = insect not said here | with insects's diamond pencils on golden slates | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | light | at the beautiful picture book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cost | past · perfect | the beautiful picture book | half kingdom | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kingdom=Value |
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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