Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 69
At sunset her brothers returned and were very much frightened when they found her dumb.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: return, frighten, find · To what, where: life
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunset | case |
| 2 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 frightened | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frightened | aux:pass |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 frightened | advmod |
| 10 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 found | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frightened | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | life's brothers | sunset | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | life's brothers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | find | past | brothers = brother | life | dumb property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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