Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 89
She uttered a loud cry, for, although they were very much changed, she knew them immediately.
Who acts: motion, princes · What happens: utter, be, know · To what, where: loud cry, princes
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 (motion, princes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | amod |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uttered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 changed | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changed | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 changed | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 changed | advmod |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | obj |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 knew | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | motion | a loud cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | princes = prince | change property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | motion | princes = prince | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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