Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 27
She would never wink her eyes, even if, in joke, an expert hand should attempt to cut off her eye-brows with a sharp sword.
Who acts: maiden, expert hand · What happens: not wink, attempt, cut off · To what, where: eyes, eye brows
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 (maiden, expert hand), 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 | 4 wink | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wink | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 wink | advmod |
| 4 | wink | wink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wink | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joke | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 joke | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 joke | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joke | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 joke | case |
| 12 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wink | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attempt | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 15 | expert | expert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attempt | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 attempt | aux |
| 18 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 joke | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attempt | xcomp |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brows | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brows | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 eye | punct |
| 25 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 sword | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sword | det |
| 28 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sword | amod |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wink | would | maiden | maiden's eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | attempt | should | a expert hand | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | a expert hand not said here | maiden's eye brows | with a sharp sword | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector brow=Eventuality |
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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