Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 36
So she passed quickly through the wood and the marsh, and between the rushing whirlpools.
Who acts: polypi · What happens: pass, rush · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (polypi), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marsh | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marsh | det |
| 10 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whirlpools | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whirlpools | cc |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 whirlpools | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whirlpools | det |
| 15 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 whirlpools | amod |
| 16 | whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | polypi | the wood and the marsh | quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | |||
| 2 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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