Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 12
In the Viking's castle on the wild moor, to which the storks directed their flight in the following spring, the little maiden still remained.
Who acts: storks, little maiden · What happens: direct, follow, remain · To what, where: flight, castle
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 (storks, little maiden), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Viking | det |
| 3 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Viking | case |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 directed | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 moor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moor | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moor | amod |
| 9 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 directed | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 directed | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storks | det |
| 14 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 directed | nsubj |
| 15 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 directed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 spring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spring | det |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 spring | amod |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 directed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 maiden | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spring | appos |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 remained | advmod |
| 27 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 directed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | past | the storks | storks's flight | the Viking's castle on the wild moor | spring | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent flight=Theme in castle=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | remain | past | the little maiden not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «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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