Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 29
Even on the way to death, she would not give up her task.
Who acts: swan · What happens: not give up, task · To what, where: task
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 (swan), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 way | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 give | advmod |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 task | nmod:poss |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up | would | swan | swan's task | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Source | ||||
| 2 | task | swan | nom task «act 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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