Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 67
His young and beautiful daughter who, in swan's plumage, had flown over land and seas to the distant north, had never returned.
What happens: fly, not return · To what, where: plumage, land
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beautiful | cc |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 young | conj |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plumage | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 plumage | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plumage | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 plumage | case |
| 9 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 swan | case |
| 11 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flown | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flown | aux |
| 14 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plumage | acl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flown | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seas | cc |
| 18 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 land | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 north | det |
| 21 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 north | amod |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flown | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plumage | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 returned | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 returned | advmod |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · perfect | swan's plumage not said here | land and seas | to the distant north | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location | |||
| 2 | not return | past · perfect · passive | swan's plumage | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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