Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 99
Then the daughters of the sun sang a song of the traveller, whose cloak had been carried away by the wind. "
Who acts: daughters, wind, traveller · What happens: sing, carry away · To what, where: song, cloak
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, wind, traveller), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughters | det |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughters | nmod |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 traveller | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 traveller | det |
| 12 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 song | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 traveller | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the daughters of the sun | a song of the traveller | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry away | past · perfect · passive | the wind | cloak | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing | the traveller | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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