Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 104
She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand from her sandals, and then passed through the long passage, which leads to the centre of one of the great pyramids, where the mighty kings of antiquity, surrounded with pomp and splendor, lie veiled in the form of mummies.
Who acts: princess, long passage, pomp · What happens: go, shake, pass, lead, surround, lie · To what, where: marble sphinx, sand, sandals, long passage, mighty kings, mummies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, long passage, pomp), 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 | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sphinx | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sphinx | det |
| 6 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sphinx | compound |
| 7 | sphinx | sphinx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 desert | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 desert | det |
| 10 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sphinx | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaking | punct |
| 12 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaking | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sandals | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shaking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 passed | advmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 passage | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 passage | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 passage | amod |
| 25 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leads | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 leads | nsubj |
| 28 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 passage | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 centre | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 centre | det |
| 31 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leads | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 centre | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 pyramids | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pyramids | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 pyramids | amod |
| 37 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 surrounded | punct |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 surrounded | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kings | det |
| 41 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 kings | amod |
| 42 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 antiquity | case |
| 44 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kings | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 surrounded | punct |
| 46 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 pyramids | acl |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 pomp | case |
| 48 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 splendor | cc |
| 50 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pomp | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 lie | punct |
| 52 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 passed | conj |
| 53 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 lie | xcomp |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 form | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 form | det |
| 56 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 veiled | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 mummies | case |
| 58 | mummies | mummy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 form | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | princess | the marble sphinx in the desert | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sphinx=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | princess not said here | the sand | princess's sandals | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sand=Theme from sandal=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pass | past | the long passage | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location | ||||
| 4 | lead | present | the long passage | to the centre of one of the great pyramids | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to centre=Patient | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | pomp and splendor | the mighty kings of antiquity | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | veil | participle | in the form of mummies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in form=Theme | |||||
| 8 | form | mummies | 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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