Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 62
On their return, after this voyage, the men spoke of the beautiful temples built of polished stone, which had been raised for the public worship of this holy love.
Who acts: men, words, holy love · What happens: speak, build, polish, raise, return, worship · To what, where: return, beautiful temples, polished stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, words, holy love), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 voyage | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 voyage | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 voyage | det |
| 7 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 temples | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temples | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temples | amod |
| 15 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spoke | obl |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 temples | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stone | amod |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 raised | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 raised | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 raised | aux:pass |
| 24 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stone | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 worship | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 worship | det |
| 27 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 worship | amod |
| 28 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raised | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 love | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 love | det |
| 31 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 love | amod |
| 32 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 worship | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the men | words's return and this voyage | of the beautiful temples | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | participle | the beautiful temples not said here | of polished stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | raise | past · perfect · passive | polished stone | for the public worship of this holy love | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | words = word | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | worship | this holy love | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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