Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 113
As she turned to walk away, much came into her mind that she had heard in her childhood: old superstitions of spectres by the sea-shore; of the ghosts of drowned but unburied people, whose corpses had been washed up on the desolate beach.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: turn, walk away, come, hear, drown, unbury · To what, where: mind, childhood, corpses, desolate beach, drowned people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 turned | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 walk | mark |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 walk | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 childhood | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 19 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 superstitions | punct |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 superstitions | amod |
| 22 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 childhood | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 spectres | case |
| 24 | spectres | spectre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 superstitions | nmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shore | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 sea | punct |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 ghosts | punct |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ghosts | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ghosts | det |
| 33 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 people | case |
| 35 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 people | amod |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 unburied | cc |
| 37 | unburied | unbury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 drowned | conj |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ghosts | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 washed | punct |
| 40 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 41 corpses | nmod:poss |
| 41 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 washed | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 washed | aux:pass |
| 44 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 people | acl:relcl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 washed | compound:prt |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 beach | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 beach | det |
| 48 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 beach | compound |
| 49 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 washed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Anne | of the ghosts of drowned people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk away | to-infinitive | Anne not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Anne not said here | Anne's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | Anne | Anne's childhood and old superstitions of spectres | by the sea shore | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | unbury | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | wash up | past · perfect · passive | corpses | the desolate beach | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | mind | Anne | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | ghost | drowned people | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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