Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 26
When the sun set, they would change to men, fall into the sea and be drowned.
Who acts: sun set, you · What happens: change, fall, drown · To what, where: sea
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 (sun set, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 change | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 change | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 change | aux |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fall | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fall | punct |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fall | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drowned | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drowned | aux:pass |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fall | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | would | the sun set | to men result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to man=Result | ||||
| 2 | fall | imperative | you not said here | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | drown | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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