Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 70
They believed it to be some new sorcery of their wicked step-mother.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: nettle, new sorcery
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sorcery | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorcery | cop |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sorcery | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sorcery | amod |
| 8 | sorcery | sorcery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mother | amod |
| 12 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 step | punct |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorcery | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | brothers = brother | nettle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | some new sorcery | of brothers's wicked step mother | tree rules |
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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