Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 96
The frog-figure beckoned to him to follow her, and led him through a long gallery concealed by hanging drapery to the stables, and then pointed to a horse.
Who acts: frog figure · What happens: beckon, follow, lead, conceal, hang, point · To what, where: frog figure, handsomest, figure, long gallery, drapery, horse
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 (frog figure), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 figure | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 figure | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 frog | punct |
| 4 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | nsubj |
| 5 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 figure | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beckoned | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beckoned | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | obj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 gallery | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gallery | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gallery | amod |
| 18 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gallery | acl |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 hanging | mark |
| 21 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 concealed | advcl |
| 22 | drapery | drapery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hanging | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 stables | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stables | det |
| 25 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hanging | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pointed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pointed | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 pointed | advmod |
| 29 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 led | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pointed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | participle | the frog figure not said here | handsomest = handsome | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | figure | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | the frog figure | handsomest = handsome | a long gallery | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through gallery=Destination | |||
| 4 | conceal | participle | a long gallery not said here | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | drapery | to the stables result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent drapery=Patient to stable=Result | ||||
| 6 | point | past | the frog figure not said here | a horse | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient |
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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