Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 11
Away from the gorgeous regal halls was she led to a dark, dreary cell, where the wind whistled through the iron bars.
Who acts: Eliza, wind · What happens: be, whistle · To what, where: iron bars
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 (Eliza, wind), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 9 led | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 halls | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 halls | det |
| 4 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 halls | amod |
| 5 | regal | regal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 halls | compound |
| 6 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Away | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | cop |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cell | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cell | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cell | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 14 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cell | amod |
| 15 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whistled | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 whistled | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whistled | nsubj |
| 20 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cell | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 bars | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bars | det |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bars | compound |
| 24 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 whistled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Eliza | to a dark dreary cell; away, lead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the wind | the iron bars | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bar=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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