Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 60
As it reached the surface of the marsh, a leaf spread out, and unfolded itself broader and broader, and close to it came forth a bud.
Who acts: stalk, bud · What happens: reach, spread out, unfold, come · To what, where: surface, leaf, stalk
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 (stalk, bud), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 surface | det |
| 5 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 marsh | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 marsh | det |
| 8 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surface | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaf | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 leaf | det |
| 11 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surface | conj |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 leaf | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 spread | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unfolded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unfolded | cc |
| 16 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 unfolded | obj |
| 18 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 unfolded | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 broader | cc |
| 20 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 broader | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 close | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 close | cc |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 close | obl |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bud | det |
| 29 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | stalk | the surface of the marsh and a leaf | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread out | participle | a leaf not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | unfold | past | stalk not said here | stalk | broad property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 4 | come | past | a bud | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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