Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 106
She had performed all this, and in a dream had learnt that she must bring home to her father the lotus flower, which grows in the deep sea, near the moors and heath in the Danish land.
Who acts: princess, lotus flower · What happens: perform, learn, bring, grow · To what, where: this, dream, lotus flower, father, deep sea
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, lotus flower), 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 performed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 performed | aux |
| 3 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 performed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learnt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learnt | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learnt | obl |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 learnt | aux |
| 12 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 performed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | aux |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learnt | xcomp |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flower | det |
| 22 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flower | compound |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grows | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 grows | nsubj |
| 26 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flower | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sea | amod |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grows | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 moors | punct |
| 32 | near | near | ADP | _ | 34 moors | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 moors | det |
| 34 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 grows | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 heath | cc |
| 36 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moors | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 land | det |
| 39 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 land | amod |
| 40 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heath | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past · perfect | princess | this | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | past · perfect | princess not said here | a dream | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | must | princess | the lotus flower | princess's father | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to father=Destination | ||
| 4 | grow | present | the lotus flower | the deep sea | near the moors and heath in the Danish land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
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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