Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 110
But a heavier weight encircled her heart--sorrow for her brothers.
Who acts: heavier weight · What happens: encircle · To what, where: 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 (heavier weight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 encircled | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 weight | det |
| 3 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 weight | amod |
| 4 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encircled | nsubj |
| 5 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encircled | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorrow | punct |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 encircled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | past | a heavier weight | weight's heart and sorrow | for weight's brothers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-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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