Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 28
It was as if the quiet woodland were a holy church consecrated by his worship.
Who acts: fervor, beauty · What happens: be, consecrate, worship · To what, where: holy church
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 (fervor, beauty), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 church | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 church | cop |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 church | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 church | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woodland | det |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woodland | amod |
| 7 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 church | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 church | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 10 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 church | amod |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 church | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 worship | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 worship | nmod:poss |
| 15 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consecrated | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fervor | a holy church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consecrate | participle | a holy church not said here | by beauty's worship | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | worship | beauty | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=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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