Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 95
Then the king declared his intention of making her his bride, but the archbishop shook his head, and whispered that the fair young maiden was only a witch who had blinded the king's eyes and bewitched his heart.
Who acts: king, intention, archbishop, fair young maiden, witch · What happens: declare, make, shake, whisper, be, blind · To what, where: intention, bride, head, witch, eyes, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, intention, archbishop, fair young maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 declared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 intention | nmod:poss |
| 6 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 intention | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 making | obj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shook | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 shook | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 archbishop | det |
| 15 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shook | nsubj |
| 16 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shook | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whispered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 whispered | cc |
| 21 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 witch | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 witch | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 witch | cop |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 witch | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 witch | det |
| 30 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whispered | ccomp |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 blinded | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 blinded | aux |
| 33 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 witch | acl:relcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 blinded | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 bewitched | cc |
| 39 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whispered | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 heart | nmod:poss |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bewitched | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the king | king's intention | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Attribute | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | king's intention not said here | king's bride | head | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bride=Product | |||
| 3 | shake | past | the archbishop | king's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | the fair young maiden | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | blind | past · perfect | a witch | the king's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bewitch | past | king's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | intend | king | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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