Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 27
Then she offered a prayer from her inmost heart, but still no appearance of the rock.
Who acts: set · What happens: offer · To what, where: prayer, inmost heart
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 (set), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prayer | det |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appearance | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 appearance | cc |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 appearance | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 appearance | det |
| 14 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | set | a prayer | set's inmost heart | then | no appearance of the rock obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
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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