Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 70

A glance from her eyes was a signal to frighten them away, and they were not clever enough to find out who she was; indeed she hardly knew herself.

Who acts: glance, eyes, flock · What happens: be, frighten away, not be, find out, know · To what, where: signal, eyes, flock

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 (glance, eyes, flock), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glance	det
2	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 signal	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glance	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 signal	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 signal	det
8	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 frighten	mark
10	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 signal	acl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 frighten	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 frighten	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clever	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clever	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clever	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clever	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 clever	advmod
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 signal	parataxis
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 clever	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 clever	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 find	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 who	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 knew	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	30 knew	advmod
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clever	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 knew	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 signal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a glance from flock's eyes	a signal		tree rules
2	frighten away	to-infinitive		eyes = eye	away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	not is	past	eyes = eye		clever, enough property	tree rules
4	find out	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Topic
5	know	past	flock	flock	hardly, indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus

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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