Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 100
As he offered pious prayers and sang holy songs of praise, she trembled.
Who acts: handsomest, mercy, praise · What happens: offer, sing, tremble · To what, where: pious prayers, holy songs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsomest, mercy, praise), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 offered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 trembled | advcl |
| 4 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prayers | amod |
| 5 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sang | cc |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | conj |
| 8 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 songs | amod |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sang | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 praise | case |
| 11 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 songs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trembled | nsubj |
| 14 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | handsomest = handsome | pious prayers | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | handsomest = handsome not said here | holy songs of praise | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | mercy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing | praise | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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