Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 125
Eliza had to pass close by them, and they fixed their wicked glances upon her, but she prayed silently, gathered the burning nettles, and carried them home with her to the castle.
Who acts: Eliza, creatures · What happens: have, pass, fix, pray, gather, carry · To what, where: wicked glances, burning nettles, creatures, castle
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 (Eliza, creatures), 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 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pass | mark |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pass | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fixed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fixed | nsubj |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 glances | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glances | amod |
| 14 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fixed | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fixed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prayed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 prayed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prayed | nsubj |
| 20 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 20 prayed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gathered | punct |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prayed | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nettles | det |
| 25 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nettles | compound |
| 26 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gathered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 carried | cc |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 carried | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Eliza | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Eliza not said here | by creatures = creature; close property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location | ||||
| 3 | fix | past | creatures = creature | creatures's wicked glances | upon Eliza | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent glance=Patient | |||
| 4 | pray | past | Eliza | silently property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | gather | past | Eliza not said here | the burning nettles | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | past | Eliza not said here | creatures = creature | the castle | with Eliza; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination | ||
| 7 | glance | creatures = creature | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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