Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 116
Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another.
Who acts: word · What happens: creep away, deck out, look, weave · To what, where: little chamber, one coat
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 (word), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chamber | amod |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 decked | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 decked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 decked | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 decked | aux:pass |
| 15 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 decked | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decked | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 cave | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cave | det |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wove | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wove | cc |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 wove | advmod |
| 25 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crept | conj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 coat | nummod |
| 27 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wove | obj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 another | case |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 wove | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep away | past | word | word's little chamber | night | away, therefore property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||
| 2 | deck out | past · perfect · passive | word's little chamber | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | like the cave | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | weave | past | word not said here | one coat | after another | quickly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Product |
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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