Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 47
The young storks thought their eyes deceived them, everything around appeared so beautiful.
Who acts: young storks, eyes, everything · What happens: think, deceive, appear · To what, where: storks · 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 (young storks, eyes, everything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 storks | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storks | amod |
| 3 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 deceived | nsubj |
| 7 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deceived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deceived | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the young storks | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deceive | past | storks's eyes | storks = stork | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | everything | around, beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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