Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 7
She thought with terror of the solitary walk, and of the horrible ghouls, but her will was firm, as well as her trust in Providence.
Who acts: Eliza · What happens: think, be, trust · To what, where: Providence
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 terror | case |
| 4 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 7 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walk | amod |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terror | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ghouls | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ghouls | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ghouls | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ghouls | det |
| 13 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ghouls | amod |
| 14 | ghouls | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 firm | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 firm | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 firm | nmod:poss |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 firm | aux |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 firm | cop |
| 20 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 trust | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 trust | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 trust | nmod:poss |
| 26 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 firm | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Providence | case |
| 28 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 trust | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Eliza | with terror of the solitary walk and the horrible ghouls | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | Eliza not said here | Eliza's trust in Providence obl; firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trust | Eliza | Providence | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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