Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 26
She has ventured to take this journey, and now she is lost."
Who acts: daughter · What happens: venture, take, lose · To what, where: journey, daughter
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 (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ventured | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ventured | aux |
| 3 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ventured | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lost | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ventured | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ventured | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | present · perfect | daughter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | this journey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | present · passive | daughter | now | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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