Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 24
It appeared to her as if the swans were making great efforts with their wings.
Who acts: It, swans · What happens: appear, make · To what, where: Eliza, great efforts
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 (It, swans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appeared | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 making | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 making | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swans | det |
| 8 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 making | aux |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 efforts | amod |
| 12 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wings | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | It | Eliza | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | the swans | great efforts | with swans's wings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
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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