Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 15
The wanderer sank, and went down to the Marsh King, as he is named, who rules in the great moorland empire beneath.
Who acts: wanderer · What happens: sink, go down, name, rule · To what, where: wanderer, great moorland empire
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 (wanderer), 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 | 2 wanderer | det |
| 2 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 10 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | compound |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 named | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 named | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 named | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 named | aux:pass |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rules | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rules | nsubj |
| 19 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 named | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 empire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 empire | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 empire | amod |
| 23 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 empire | compound |
| 24 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 named | obl |
| 25 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 16 named | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the wanderer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go down | past | the wanderer not said here | to the Marsh King; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | name | present · passive | wanderer | the great moorland empire | beneath property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | rule | tree rules |
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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