Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 43
If so, she received an answer, a very practical one; for the two swans rose up and flew away with her swan's plumage. '
Who acts: swan, two swans · What happens: receive, rise up, fly away · To what, where: answer
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, two swans), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 received | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 so | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | nsubj |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 practical | advmod |
| 11 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | appos |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 rose | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swans | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 swans | nummod |
| 17 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rose | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rose | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 plumage | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 swan | nmod:poss |
| 25 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 swan | case |
| 27 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | swan | a answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | the two swans | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly away | past | the two swans not said here | with swan's swan's plumage; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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