Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 66
Then she went forth from the cave to begin her work with her delicate hands.
Who acts: life · What happens: go, begin, work · To what, where: cave, work
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 (life), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 begin | mark |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begin | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hands | amod |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 begin | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | life | the cave | then | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from cave=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | life not said here | life's work | with life's delicate hands | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality with hand=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | work | life | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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