Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 14

Every month this temper showed itself in sharper outlines; and in the course of years, while the storks still made the same journeys in autumn to the hill, and in spring to the moors, the child grew to be almost a woman, and before any one seemed aware of it, she was a wonderfully beautiful maiden of sixteen.

Who acts: temper, storks, child, one · What happens: show, make, grow, be, seem · To what, where: temper, sharper outlines, same journeys, woman, beautiful maiden

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 (temper, storks, child, one), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	obl:unmarked
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 temper	det
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	nsubj
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 showed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 outlines	case
8	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 outlines	amod
9	outlines	outline	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 showed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 course	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 course	det
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 and	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 course	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storks	det
20	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 made	advmod
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 journeys	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 journeys	amod
25	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 autumn	case
27	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 hill	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hill	det
30	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 grew	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 grew	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spring	case
34	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grew	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 moors	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 moors	det
37	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 spring	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spring	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 child	det
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grew	nsubj
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	46 woman	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 woman	cop
44	almost	almost	ADV	_	46 woman	advmod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 woman	det
46	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grew	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seemed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 seemed	cc
49	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 seemed	mark
50	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	51 one	det
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 seemed	nsubj
52	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	ccomp
53	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 seemed	xcomp
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 aware	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 maiden	punct
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 maiden	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 maiden	cop
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 maiden	det
60	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	61 beautiful	advmod
61	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 maiden	amod
62	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	parataxis
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 sixteen	case
64	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 maiden	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	this temper	temper	sharper outlines	month		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	past	the storks	the same journeys		still; autumn	to the hill	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product
3	grow	past	the child			spring		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the child not said here	a woman			almost property	tree rules
5	seem	past	any one				aware property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	child	a beautiful maiden			of sixteen	tree rules

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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