Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 30
It was the evening twilight; when this hour arrived she became quiet and thoughtful, and allowed herself to be advised and led; then also a secret feeling seemed to draw her towards her mother.
Who acts: check, hour, Helga, secret feeling · What happens: be, arrive, become, allow, advise, lead · To what, where: evening twilight, Helga
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 (check, hour, Helga, secret feeling), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 twilight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twilight | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twilight | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twilight | compound |
| 5 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twilight | parataxis |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrived | conj |
| 13 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thoughtful | cc |
| 15 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quiet | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 allowed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 allowed | cc |
| 18 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrived | conj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 allowed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 advised | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 advised | aux:pass |
| 22 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 advised | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 seemed | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 seemed | advmod |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 seemed | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 feeling | det |
| 29 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 feeling | amod |
| 30 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seemed | nsubj |
| 31 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twilight | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 draw | mark |
| 33 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seemed | xcomp |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 draw | obj |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 37 mother | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 draw | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 twilight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | check | the evening twilight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | this hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Helga | quiet property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | allow | past | this hour not said here | Helga | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Helga not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» | |||||
| 6 | lead | participle | Helga not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 7 | seem | past | a secret feeling | the evening twilight not said here | then | tree rules | |||
| 8 | draw | to-infinitive | a secret feeling not said here | Helga | towards Helga's mother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme towards mother=Destination |
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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