Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 45
And a marriage procession returned to the castle, such as no king had ever before seen.
Who acts: marriage procession, king · What happens: return, see · To what, where: castle
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 (marriage procession, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 returned | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 procession | det |
| 3 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 procession | compound |
| 4 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 seen | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 before | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 castle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | a marriage procession | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | no king | the castle not said here | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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