Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 76
Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had.
Who acts: daughter, goblin folk · What happens: make, follow, have · To what, where: figure, wife, shadow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, goblin folk), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 figure | det |
| 6 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 follow | nsubj |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shadow | det |
| 17 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 none | punct |
| 19 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 20 none | det |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 shadow | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 folk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 folk | det |
| 23 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folk | compound |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 none | nmod |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 had | advmod |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 folk | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | another daughter | a figure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | daughter | wife | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | daughter | a shadow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the goblin folk not said here | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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