Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 97
After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but not a smile appeared on her lips or sparkled in her eyes.
Who acts: maiden, smile · What happens: lead, not appear, sparkle · To what, where: head, fragrant gardens, lips, eyes
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 (maiden, smile), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 wards | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 After | punct |
| 3 | wards | ward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 gardens | case |
| 8 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gardens | amod |
| 9 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 halls | cc |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 halls | amod |
| 12 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gardens | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appeared | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 appeared | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 appeared | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 sparkled | cc |
| 23 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 lips | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sparkled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | maiden | head | fragrant gardens and lofty halls | after wards | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through garden=Destination | ||
| 2 | not appear | past | a smile | head's lips | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lip=Location | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | a smile not said here | head's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
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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