Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 68
So she bruised the nettles with her bare feet and spun the flax.
Who acts: life · What happens: bruise, spin · To what, where: nettles, flax
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bruised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bruised | nsubj |
| 3 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nettles | det |
| 5 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bruised | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bruised | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spun | cc |
| 11 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bruised | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flax | det |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spun | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruise | past | life | the nettles | with life's bare feet | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nettle=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 2 | spin | past | life not said here | the flax | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=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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