Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 129
She was a witch, and had bewitched the king and all the people.
Who acts: opinion, witch · What happens: be, bewitch · To what, where: witch, king
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 (opinion, witch), 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 | 4 witch | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 witch | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bewitched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bewitched | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bewitched | aux |
| 8 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bewitched | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 people | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 people | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 king | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | opinion | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bewitch | past · perfect | a witch not said here | the king and all people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=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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