Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 54
As soon as she had dressed herself again, and braided her long hair, she went to the bubbling spring, and drank some water out of the hollow of her hand.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: dress, braid, go, bubble, drink · To what, where: daughter, long hair, water, hollow
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 (daughter), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 braided | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 dressed | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | aux |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 dressed | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 dressed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 braided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 braided | cc |
| 11 | braided | braid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 braided | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 braided | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 spring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spring | det |
| 20 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 spring | amod |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drank | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drank | cc |
| 24 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 braided | conj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drank | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 hollow | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hollow | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hollow | det |
| 30 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drank | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hollow | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 braided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · perfect | daughter | daughter | again | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | braid | past | daughter's long hair | soon property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | daughter | spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 5 | drink | past | some water | the hollow of daughter's hand | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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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