Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 18
The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor Eliza knew that she was innocent, and diligently continued her work.
Who acts: archbishop, poor Eliza, Eliza · What happens: withdraw, utter, know, be, continue, work · To what, where: bitter words, work · 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, poor Eliza, Eliza), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 archbishop | det |
| 2 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 withdrew | nsubj |
| 3 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 uttering | punct |
| 5 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 withdrew | advcl |
| 6 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uttering | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 uttering | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Eliza | amod |
| 13 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 withdrew | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 innocent | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 innocent | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 innocent | cop |
| 18 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 continued | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 continued | cc |
| 21 | diligently | diligently | ADV | _ | 22 continued | advmod |
| 22 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 withdrew | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continued | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | the archbishop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | gerund | the archbishop not said here | bitter words | against Eliza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | know | past | poor Eliza | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Eliza | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | continue | past | Eliza's work | diligently property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 6 | work | Eliza | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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