Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 18
In one of her wild moods she bit off the head of the black cock, which the priest was about to slay for the sacrifice.
Who acts: child, black cock · What happens: bite off, be, slay · To what, where: head
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, black cock), 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 | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 moods | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 moods | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moods | amod |
| 6 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 8 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moods | acl:relcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cock | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cock | amod |
| 15 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 about | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 about | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 priest | det |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 about | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 about | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cock | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 slay | mark |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 about | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sacrifice | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sacrifice | det |
| 26 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | past | child | the head of the black cock | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the black cock | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | the black cock not said here | for the sacrifice | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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