Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 96
By day it was charming in appearance as an angel of light, but with a temper wicked and wild; while at night, in the form of an ugly frog, it was quiet and mournful, with eyes full of sorrow.
Who acts: favor · What happens: charm, be, form · To what, where: appearance, ugly frog
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 (favor), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 day | case |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charming | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 charming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 charming | aux |
| 5 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charming | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 angel | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 angel | det |
| 10 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charming | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 angel | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wicked | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 wicked | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 temper | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 temper | det |
| 17 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wicked | obl |
| 18 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 charming | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wild | cc |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wicked | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 night | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 night | mark |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charming | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 form | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 form | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 form | det |
| 28 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charming | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 frog | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 frog | det |
| 31 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 frog | amod |
| 32 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 form | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 quiet | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 quiet | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 quiet | cop |
| 36 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 frog | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 mournful | cc |
| 38 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 quiet | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 eyes | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 quiet | conj |
| 42 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 eyes | amod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sorrow | case |
| 44 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 full | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · progressive | favor | appearance | day; night | as a angel of light; in the form of a ugly frog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | past | favor | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | favor not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | form | a ugly frog | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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