Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 101
Was it the effect of prayer and praise that caused this? or, was she shuddering in the cold morning air at the thought of approaching twilight?
Who acts: praise, prayer, mercy, thought · What happens: be, cause, shudder, approach · To what, where: effect, this, cold morning air, twilight
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 (praise, prayer, mercy, thought), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 effect | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 effect | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 effect | det |
| 4 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prayer | case |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 effect | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 praise | cc |
| 8 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayer | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prayer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 caused | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 shuddering | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 shuddering | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shuddering | aux |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shuddering | nsubj |
| 17 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 caused | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 air | amod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 air | compound |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shuddering | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 thought | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thought | det |
| 25 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shuddering | obl |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 approaching | mark |
| 27 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 thought | acl |
| 28 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 approaching | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 effect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | praise | the effect | of prayer and praise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | past | prayer and praise | this | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition this=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shudder | past · progressive | mercy | the cold morning air | at the thought | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at thought=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | approach | gerund | the thought not said here | twilight | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twilight=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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