Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 80
Her head bent wearily, her tired limbs required rest, and then she slept.
Who acts: head, tired limbs, recollection · What happens: bend, require, sleep · To what, where: tired limbs, rest
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 (head, tired limbs, recollection), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 3 bent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 limbs | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 limbs | amod |
| 8 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bent | obl |
| 9 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 limbs | acl |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 required | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slept | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 slept | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slept | nsubj |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | recollection's head | recollection's tired limbs | wearily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | require | participle | recollection's tired limbs not said here | rest | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | recollection | then | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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