Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 10
She swung the censer, and a wonderful fragrance of incense arose from it; so powerful, that the reeds and rushes of the moor burst forth into blossom.
Who acts: child, wonderful fragrance, reeds · What happens: swing, arise, burst · To what, where: censer, incense, blossom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, wonderful fragrance, reeds), 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 swung | nsubj |
| 2 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 censer | det |
| 4 | censer | censer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swung | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arose | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fragrance | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fragrance | amod |
| 9 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 incense | case |
| 11 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fragrance | nmod |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arose | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 powerful | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 powerful | advmod |
| 17 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swung | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 burst | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 burst | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reeds | det |
| 21 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 burst | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rushes | cc |
| 23 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reeds | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moor | det |
| 26 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reeds | nmod |
| 27 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 burst | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 blossom | case |
| 30 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burst | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | child | the censer | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent censer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | a wonderful fragrance of incense | incense | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | the reeds of the moor and rushes | blossom | forth property | 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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