Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 76
The sad recollection brought the tears to her eyes, and in this gentle spirit she traced the same sign in the sand round the grave; and as she formed, with both her hands, the sign of the cross, the web skin fell from them like a torn glove.
Who acts: sad recollection, recollection, web skin · What happens: bring, trace, form, fall, tear, sign · To what, where: tears, eyes, same sign, gentle spirit, cross
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 (sad recollection, recollection, web skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 recollection | det |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 recollection | amod |
| 3 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tears | det |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 traced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 traced | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 spirit | det |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spirit | amod |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 traced | nsubj |
| 17 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sign | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sign | amod |
| 20 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sand | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sand | det |
| 23 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | obl |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 grave | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grave | det |
| 26 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 formed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 formed | cc |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 formed | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 formed | nsubj |
| 31 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hands | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 hands | case |
| 34 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 36 hands | cc:preconj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 hands | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 formed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sign | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sign | det |
| 39 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hands | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 cross | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cross | det |
| 42 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sign | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 fell | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 skin | det |
| 45 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 skin | compound |
| 46 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fell | nsubj |
| 47 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 formed | conj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fell | obl |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 53 glove | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 glove | det |
| 52 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 glove | amod |
| 53 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fell | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the sad recollection | the tears | recollection's eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | trace | past | recollection | the same sign | this gentle spirit | in the sand; round the grave | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme in spirit=Destination | ||
| 3 | form | past | recollection | with recollection's hands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the web skin | from signs = sign; like a torn glove | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | sign | the cross | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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