Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 79
He advanced towards her, for he had never seen a more beautiful maiden.
Who acts: huntsman · What happens: advance, not see · To what, where: beautiful maiden
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 (huntsman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 advanced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 advanced | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | huntsman | towards sound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | huntsman | a beautiful maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
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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