Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 20
He appeared to her a mighty magician skilled in secret arts; his language was the darkest magic to her, and the movements of his hands in the air were as the secret signs of a magician's wand.
Who acts: man, language, movements · What happens: appear, skill, be, move · To what, where: mighty magician, action, secret arts, darkest magic, hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, language, movements), 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 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appeared | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magician | amod |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obj |
| 8 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 magician | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 arts | case |
| 10 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arts | amod |
| 11 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 skilled | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 magic | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 language | nmod:poss |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 magic | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 magic | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magic | det |
| 17 | darkest | dark | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 magic | amod |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 magic | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 signs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 signs | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 movements | det |
| 24 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 signs | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hands | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 movements | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hands | nmod |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 signs | cop |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 signs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 signs | det |
| 34 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 signs | amod |
| 35 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appeared | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wand | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 magician | det |
| 38 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wand | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 magician | case |
| 40 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 signs | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | man | a mighty magician | action | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location magician=Theme | |||
| 2 | skill | participle | a mighty magician not said here | secret arts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | man's language | the darkest magic | action | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the movements of man's hands in the air | as the secret signs; of a magician's wand | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | move | man's hands in the air | nom movement «act 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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