Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 51
She quickly sank, and the elder stump dived immediately after her; in fact, it was he who drew her down.
Who acts: child, elder stump, stump, arm · What happens: sink, dive, be, draw down · To what, where: arm, child, fact
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 (child, elder stump, stump, arm), 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 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 sank | advmod |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dived | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stump | det |
| 7 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stump | amod |
| 8 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dived | nsubj |
| 9 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 dived | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dived | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 drew | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fact | case |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fact | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 he | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 he | cop |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 drew | nsubj |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 drew | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | child | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | the elder stump | after child | immediately property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | past | stump | arm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | draw down | past | arm | child | fact | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fact=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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