Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 130

Secretly he told the king what he had seen and what he feared, and as the hard words came from his tongue, the carved images of the saints shook their heads as if they would say. "

Who acts: king, carved images, images · What happens: tell, see, fear, come, carve, shake · To what, where: king, heads, tongue, saints · 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 (king, carved images, images), 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	Secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 seen	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 seen	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feared	nsubj
13	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 words	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 words	amod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	obl
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 tongue	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tongue	nmod:poss
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shook	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 images	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 images	det
26	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 images	amod
27	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shook	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 saints	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 saints	det
30	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 images	nmod
31	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shook	obj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 say	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 say	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 say	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 say	aux
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 shook	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	king		the king		secretly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	fear	past	king					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	past					as the hard words	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carve	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shake	past	the carved images of the saints	images's heads		king's tongue		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme from tongue=Trajectory
7	say speech: assert	would	images = image					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	image			the saints				nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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