Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 1

But the archbishop interpreted it in another way; he believed that they witnessed against her, and were shaking their heads at her wickedness.

Who acts: archbishop, they · What happens: interpret, believe, witness, shake · To what, where: it, way, heads, wickedness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archbishop, they), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 interpreted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 archbishop	det
3	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interpreted	nsubj
4	interpreted	interpret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interpreted	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interpreted	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believed	nsubj
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 interpreted	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 witnessed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 witnessed	nsubj
14	witnessed	witness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believed	ccomp
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 witnessed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shaking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shaking	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shaking	aux
20	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 witnessed	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shaking	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 wickedness	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wickedness	nmod:poss
25	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shaking	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interpreted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	interpret	past	the archbishop	it	another way		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	believe	past	archbishop				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	witness	past	they			against her = she	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
4	shake	past · progressive	they not said here	their heads	her wickedness		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at wickedness=Trajectory

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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