Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 72
Eliza bade the old woman farewell, and walked by the flowing river, till she reached the shore of the open sea.
Who acts: bade · What happens: walk, flow, reach · To what, where: shore
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 (bade), 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 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | compound |
| 2 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 5 woman | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 12 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 river | amod |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sea | amod |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shore | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | by the flowing river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | bade | the shore of the open sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
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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