Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 58
Here she held her noonday repast, placed props under the boughs, and then went into the gloomiest depths of the forest.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: hold, place, go · To what, where: noonday repast, gloomiest depths
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 repast | nmod:poss |
| 5 | noonday | noonday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repast | compound |
| 6 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 props | punct |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 props | amod |
| 9 | props | prop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repast | appos |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 boughs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boughs | det |
| 12 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 props | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 depths | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 depths | det |
| 19 | gloomiest | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 depths | amod |
| 20 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depths | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | daughter | daughter's noonday repast | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repast=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | participle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | daughter not said here | the gloomiest depths of the forest | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into depth=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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