Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 123
Then she saw on one of the broad tombstones a group of ghouls.
Who acts: heart · What happens: see
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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 saw | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tombstones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tombstones | det |
| 8 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tombstones | amod |
| 9 | tombstones | tombstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 group | det |
| 11 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tombstones | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ghouls | case |
| 13 | ghouls | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 group | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | heart | then | on one of the broad tombstones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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