Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 118
She knew that the nettles she wanted to use grew in the churchyard, and that she must pluck them herself.
Who acts: word, nettles · What happens: know, want, use, grow, pluck · To what, where: nettles, churchyard, coats · 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 (word, nettles), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 grew | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nettles | det |
| 5 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nettles | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 churchyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 churchyard | det |
| 13 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pluck | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pluck | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 pluck | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pluck | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 pluck | aux |
| 19 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pluck | obj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 pluck | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | past | word | the nettles not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | the nettles not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | the nettles | the churchyard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location | ||||
| 5 | pluck | must | word | coats = coat | word obl | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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