Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 64
She leaned for support against the trunk of a slender tree, and at last climbed to the topmost branches, like a cat, and seated herself firmly upon them.
Who acts: animal · What happens: learn, climb, seat · To what, where: last, animal
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaned | nsubj |
| 2 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 support | case |
| 4 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | obl |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 trunk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trunk | det |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trunk | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 climbed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climbed | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 climbed | obl |
| 16 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leaned | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 19 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 branches | amod |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 climbed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cat | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 cat | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cat | det |
| 24 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seated | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 seated | cc |
| 27 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | parataxis |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 seated | obj |
| 29 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 27 seated | advmod |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | animal | for support; against the trunk of a slender tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | climb | participle | last | to the topmost branches; like a cat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | animal | upon branches = branch; firmly property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
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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