Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 39
There she sat, without any covering but her long, black hair.
Who acts: swan · What happens: sit
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 (swan), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 covering | punct |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 covering | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 covering | det |
| 7 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hair | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | swan | there | without any covering | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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