Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 42
She asked if this was the land to which they were hastening.
Who acts: Eliza, this, trees · What happens: ask, be, hasten · To what, where: land
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 (Eliza, this, trees), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 land | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 land | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hastening | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hastening | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastening | aux |
| 12 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Eliza | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | this | the land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past · progressive | trees = tree | the land | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to which=Destination |
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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