Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 41
"Yes, she is innocent," said the eldest brother; and then he related all that had taken place; and while he spoke there rose in the air a fragrance as from millions of roses.
Who acts: swan, innocent, youngest · What happens: be, say, relate, take, speak, rise · To what, where: that, fragrance, air · 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 (swan, innocent, youngest), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 innocent | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 innocent | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 innocent | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 innocent | cop |
| 6 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innocent | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 innocent | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 related | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 related | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 related | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 related | nsubj |
| 17 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 taken | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 related | ccomp |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoke | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | cc |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | nsubj |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rose | advcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 spoke | advmod |
| 29 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 air | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 air | det |
| 32 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rose | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fragrance | det |
| 34 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 millions | case |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 millions | case |
| 37 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rose | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 roses | case |
| 39 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 millions | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | swan | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | innocent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | relate | past | youngest = young | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | youngest = young | there | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rise | past | a fragrance | the air | as millions of roses | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=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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