Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 98
They had searched for it everywhere; in learned writings, in the shining stars, in the weather and wind.
Who acts: storks · What happens: search, learn, shine · To what, where: learned writings
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 (storks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | aux |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | obl |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 searched | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 writings | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 writings | case |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 writings | amod |
| 10 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 searched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stars | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stars | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stars | amod |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 writings | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 weather | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 weather | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weather | det |
| 19 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writings | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wind | cc |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weather | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · perfect | storks = stork | learned writings in the weather and wind and the shining stars | for health; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme in writing=Location | |||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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