Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 33
Then she saw her brothers standing closely round her with their arms linked together.
Who acts: lightning, brothers · What happens: see, stand, link · To what, where: brothers, arms
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 (lightning, brothers), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 6 standing | advmod |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 standing | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 standing | obl |
| 13 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 arms | acl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 linked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | lightning | lightning's brothers | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | lightning's brothers not said here | round lightning; with brothers's arms; closely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | link | participle | brothers's arms not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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