Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 11
Then they spent the whole night in weaving a net with the pliant willow and rushes.
Who acts: wings · What happens: spend, weave, rush · To what, where: net
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 (wings), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 weaving | mark |
| 8 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 net | det |
| 10 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weaving | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 willow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 willow | det |
| 13 | pliant | pliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 willow | amod |
| 14 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weaving | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushes | cc |
| 16 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | wings = wing | then; night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weave | gerund | wings = wing not said here | a net | with the pliant willow | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product | |||
| 3 | rush | present | wings = wing not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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