Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 94
He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross, while the form remained motionless by his side.
Who acts: handsomest · What happens: utter, make, remain motionless, sign · To what, where: holy names, sign, form, cross
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 (handsomest), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 names | det |
| 4 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 names | amod |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 uttered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sign | det |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cross | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cross | det |
| 12 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 form | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 form | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 form | det |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 17 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 form | acl |
| 18 | motionless | motionless | ADP | _ | 17 remained | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remained | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | handsomest = handsome | some holy names | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past | handsomest = handsome not said here | the sign of the cross | the form obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | |||
| 3 | remain motionless | participle | the form not said here | by handsomest's side | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | sign | the cross | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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