Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 122
Then with a trembling heart, as if she were about to perform a wicked deed, she crept into the garden in the broad moonlight, and passed through the narrow walks and the deserted streets, till she reached the churchyard.
Who acts: heart · What happens: be, perform, creep, pass, desert, reach · To what, where: wicked deed, garden, narrow walks, churchyard
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 (heart), 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 | 19 crept | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 4 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | compound |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 about | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 about | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 about | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 perform | mark |
| 13 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 about | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deed | det |
| 15 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deed | amod |
| 16 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perform | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 crept | nsubj |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 moonlight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moonlight | det |
| 25 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 moonlight | amod |
| 26 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 passed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 passed | cc |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 crept | advcl |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 walks | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 walks | det |
| 32 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 walks | amod |
| 33 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 passed | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 streets | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 streets | det |
| 36 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 streets | amod |
| 37 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 walks | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 reached | punct |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 reached | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 reached | nsubj |
| 41 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 passed | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 churchyard | det |
| 43 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reached | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | heart | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | heart not said here | a wicked deed | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | heart | the garden | then | with a trembling heart; in the broad moonlight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||
| 4 | pass | participle | heart not said here | the narrow walks and the deserted streets | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through walk=Location | ||||
| 5 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | reach | past | heart | the churchyard | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent churchyard=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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