Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 69
"No," replied the old woman, "But I saw yesterday eleven swans, with gold crowns on their heads, swimming on the river close by."
Who acts: old woman · What happens: reply, see, swim · To what, where: gold crowns, heads, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 swans | nummod |
| 16 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 yesterday | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crowns | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 crowns | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crowns | compound |
| 20 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 heads | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heads | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crowns | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swimming | punct |
| 25 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swimming | obl |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 river | amod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 close | fixed |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the old woman = woman | gold crowns | crowns's heads | yesterday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | swim in a quote | gerund | the old woman = woman not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Trajectory |
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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