Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 1
"How can I break this spell?" said their sister.
Who acts: sister · What happens: break, say · To what, where: spell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 break | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 break | nsubj |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 spell | det |
| 7 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | can | their sister = sister | this spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | their sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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