Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 24
She was in costly attire, and the bard named her in his song, and spoke of the rich treasure of gold which she had brought to her husband.
Who acts: name, bard · What happens: be, name, speak, bring, sing, treasure · To what, where: costly attire, name, song, rich treasure, husband, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, bard), 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 | 5 attire | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attire | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 attire | case |
| 4 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 attire | amod |
| 5 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 named | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 named | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bard | det |
| 9 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | nsubj |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attire | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 named | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 song | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 song | nmod:poss |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spoke | cc |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attire | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 treasure | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 treasure | det |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 treasure | amod |
| 21 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoke | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 treasure | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 husband | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 husband | nmod:poss |
| 30 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | name | costly attire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | past | the bard | name | bard's song | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | of the rich treasure of gold | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the rich treasure of gold | name's husband | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to husband=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sing | bard | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | treasure | gold | nom treasure «possession 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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