Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 74
The Viking's wife was above measure delighted when she awoke the next morning and found the beautiful little child lying in her bosom.
Who acts: wife, beautiful little child · What happens: be, awake, find, lie, bosom · To what, where: above measure, beautiful little child, bosom
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 (wife, beautiful little child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Viking | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Viking | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 measure | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 measure | cop |
| 6 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 measure | amod |
| 7 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 measure | amod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 awoke | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 measure | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | amod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awoke | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 child | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bosom | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 measure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Viking's wife | above measure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | wife | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | wife not said here | the beautiful little child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | the beautiful little child not said here | wife's bosom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bosom=Location | ||||
| 5 | bosom | wife | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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