Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 108
Then the archbishop whispered wicked words in the king's ear, but they did not sink into his heart.
Who acts: archbishop, bells · What happens: whisper, not sink · To what, where: wicked words, ear, heart
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 (archbishop, bells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14357): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 whispered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 archbishop | det |
| 3 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | nsubj |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whispered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sink | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 sink | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sink | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sink | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 sink | advmod |
| 17 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 whispered | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sink | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the archbishop | wicked words | the king's ear | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||
| 2 | not sink | past · do-support | bells = bell | archbishop's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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