Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 92
They laughed, and they wept, and very soon understood how wickedly their mother had acted to them all. "
Who acts: princes · What happens: laugh, weep, understand, act · To what, where: mother, 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wept | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wept | nsubj |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 understood | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 understood | advmod |
| 11 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 acted | advmod |
| 13 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 17 acted | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acted | aux |
| 17 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 understood | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acted | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | princes = prince | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | princes = prince | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | understand | past | princes = prince not said here | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | act | past · perfect · passive | princes's mother | princes = prince | wickedly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality |
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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