Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 16
She was, indeed, wild and savage even in those hard, uncultivated times.
Who acts: child · What happens: be
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 (child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wild | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 wild | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 savage | cc |
| 8 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wild | conj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 times | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 times | det |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hard | punct |
| 14 | uncultivated | uncultivated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wild | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child | time | indeed, wild property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | child not said here | 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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