Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 101
Her heart clung to the little creature, but she could not explain to her husband the circumstances in which it was placed.
Who acts: heart · What happens: cling, not explain, place · To what, where: heart, circumstances, husband, creature
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 explain | nsubj |
| 3 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heart | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 creature | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 explain | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 explain | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 explain | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 explain | advmod |
| 13 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 explain | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 circumstances | det |
| 18 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 explain | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 placed | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 placed | aux:pass |
| 23 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | wife's heart not said here | to the little creature | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to creature=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | not explain speech: assert | could | wife's heart | the circumstances | wife's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic to husband=Recipient | |||
| 3 | place | past · passive | creature | the circumstances | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=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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