Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 17
At the same moment the cock crew in the Viking's castle, and the dream figures dissolved and floated away in the air, but mother and daughter stood opposite to each other.
Who acts: dream figures, mother · What happens: dissolve, float away, stand · To what, where: air, opposite
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 (dream figures, mother), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crew | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crew | det |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crew | compound |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Viking | det |
| 10 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 castle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Viking | case |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crew | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dissolved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dissolved | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 figures | det |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 figures | compound |
| 17 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dissolved | nsubj |
| 18 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crew | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 floated | cc |
| 20 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 dissolved | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 floated | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floated | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 stood | cc |
| 27 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 daughter | cc |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mother | conj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dissolved | conj |
| 31 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 30 stood | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | participle | the dream figures | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | float away | participle | the dream figures not said here | the air | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | stand | past | mother and daughter | opposite | to each | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opposite=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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