Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 24
The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for songs are sung and pictures painted about them.
Who acts: Marsh Woman · What happens: be, know, sing, paint · To what, where: elf maidens, songs, pictures
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marsh Woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woman | det |
| 2 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woman | compound |
| 3 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | cop |
| 5 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 maidens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maidens | det |
| 8 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maidens | compound |
| 9 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 related | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 known | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 known | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 maidens | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sung | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sung | mark |
| 18 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sung | aux:pass |
| 20 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 known | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pictures | cc |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sung | conj |
| 23 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pictures | acl |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 painted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Marsh Woman | to the elf maidens; related property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | the elf maidens | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present · passive | songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | paint | participle | pictures not said here | about songs = song | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent about they=Destination |
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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