Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 74
One coat was already finished and she had begun the second, when she heard the huntsman's horn, and was struck with fear.
Who acts: life · What happens: finish, begin, hear, strike · To what, where: One coat, second, horn
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 coat | nummod |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begun | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 begun | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 begun | aux |
| 9 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 finished | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 begun | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heard | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 huntsman | det |
| 17 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 horn | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 huntsman | case |
| 19 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 struck | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 struck | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 struck | aux:pass |
| 23 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 heard | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fear | case |
| 25 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 struck | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | One coat | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | begin | past · perfect | life | the second | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | life | the huntsman's horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | strike | past · passive | life not said here | with fear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with fear=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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