Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 38
Year after year have I flown across and across the moor, but there was no sign of her being still alive.
Who acts: I, sign · What happens: fly, 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 (I, sign), 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 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flown | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Year | nmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flown | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 flown | nsubj |
| 6 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | across | across | ADV | _ | 6 flown | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 moor | cc |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 moor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moor | det |
| 11 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flown | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flown | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 sign | det |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 alive | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 alive | nmod:poss |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 alive | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 alive | advmod |
| 22 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sign | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present · perfect | I | year | across property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | no sign | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | no sign not said here | still | alive property | 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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