Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 59
A long time went by, but at last he saw a green stalk shooting up out of the deep, marshy ground.
Who acts: long time, Egypt, green stalk · What happens: go by, see, shoot up · To what, where: green stalk, last, deep marshy ground
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 (long time, Egypt, green stalk), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stalk | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stalk | amod |
| 14 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stalk | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 shooting | compound:prt |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ground | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deep | punct |
| 22 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ground | amod |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shooting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | a long time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Egypt | a green stalk | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stalk=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shoot up | gerund | a green stalk not said here | the deep marshy ground | vn eat-39.1 «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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