Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 86
Then Eliza went down the slope from the shore, and hid herself behind the bushes.
Who acts: Eliza · What happens: go down, hide · To what, where: slope, shore, motion, bushes
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 (Eliza), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 slope | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 slope | det |
| 6 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 bushes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bushes | det |
| 16 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Eliza | the slope | the shore | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient slope=Extent from shore=Initial_State | ||
| 2 | hide | past | Eliza not said here | motion | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind bush=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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