Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 3
It was Helga again, young and beautiful, but with a wicked demoniac spirit.
Who acts: frog · What happens: be · To what, where: Helga
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 (frog), 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 | 3 Helga | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Helga | cop |
| 3 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 Helga | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Helga | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 young | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spirit | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 spirit | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spirit | amod |
| 14 | demoniac | demoniac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spirit | compound |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Helga | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Helga | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | frog | Helga | again | tree rules |
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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