Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 63
It was, in this transformation, as if two natures were striving together within her; her whole frame trembled, and she looked around her as if she had just awoke from a painful dream.
Who acts: sun, two natures, animal · What happens: be, strive, tremble, look, have, awake · To what, where: transformation, whole frame, painful dream
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 (sun, two natures, animal), 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 | 6 transformation | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 transformation | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 transformation | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 transformation | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 transformation | det |
| 6 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 striving | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 striving | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 striving | mark |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 natures | nummod |
| 11 | natures | nature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 striving | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 striving | aux |
| 13 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 transformation | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 striving | advmod |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 striving | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 frame | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 frame | nmod:poss |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 frame | amod |
| 20 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 transformation | conj |
| 21 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 frame | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 transformation | parataxis |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | obl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 looked | advcl |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 awoke | advmod |
| 33 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | advcl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 dream | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dream | det |
| 36 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dream | amod |
| 37 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 awoke | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 transformation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sun | this transformation and animal's whole frame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strive a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | two natures | within animal; together property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tremble | participle | animal's whole frame not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | animal | around nature | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | animal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | awake | past | animal not said here | a painful dream | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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