Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 90
She sprang into their arms, and called them each by name.
Who acts: motion · What happens: spring, call · To what, where: arms, princes · 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 (motion), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | motion | princes's arms | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into arm=Destination | ||||
| 2 | call | past | motion not said here | princes = prince | by name | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme each=Result |
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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