Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 76
At last it cried itself to sleep; and as it lay there so still and quiet, it was a most beautiful sight to see.
Who acts: wind · What happens: cry, sleep, lie, be, see · To what, where: wind, last, beautiful sight
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 (wind), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cried | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 lay | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | advcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 still | advmod |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quiet | cc |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 still | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sight | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sight | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sight | amod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sight | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | wind | wind | last | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Topic | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | wind not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | wind | there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | past | wind | a beautiful sight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | wind not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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