Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 87
She sprang from the couch and opened the window hastily; at the same moment the sun rose, and threw its beams through the window, till it rested on the couch where the great frog lay.
Who acts: infant, sun, great frog · What happens: spring, open, rise, throw, rest, lay · To what, where: couch, window, beams
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 (infant, sun, great frog), 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 | 2 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 couch | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 couch | det |
| 5 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 7 opened | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 threw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 threw | cc |
| 21 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | parataxis |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beams | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 threw | obj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 threw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rested | punct |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 rested | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 rested | nsubj |
| 30 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 threw | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 couch | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 couch | det |
| 33 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rested | obl |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 lay | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 frog | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 frog | amod |
| 37 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lay | nsubj |
| 38 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 couch | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | infant | the couch | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | open | past | infant not said here | the window | hastily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 3 | rise | past | the sun | moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | sun's beams | the window | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme through window=Destination | ||||
| 5 | rest | past | sun | the couch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on couch=Location | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | the great frog | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | beam | sun | nom beam «communication 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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