Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 16
But the sign of the cross made the airy phantom strong, and then the three rode away from the marsh to firm ground.
Who acts: sign, three · What happens: make, ride away, sign · To what, where: airy phantom, firm ground, marsh, cross
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 (sign, three), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cross | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cross | det |
| 6 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | nmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 phantom | det |
| 9 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phantom | amod |
| 10 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phantom | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 three | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 three | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 marsh | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 marsh | det |
| 21 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 firm | mark |
| 23 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ground | amod |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sign of the cross | the airy phantom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset phantom=Product | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | the three | firm ground | the marsh | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from marsh=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | 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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