Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 19
"Is it myself that I see represented on a white shield?" cried the daughter.
Who acts: image, daughter · What happens: be, see, represent, cry · To what, where: daughter, white shield · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (image, daughter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myself | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 myself | nsubj |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myself | advcl |
| 8 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 see | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shield | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shield | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shield | amod |
| 12 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 represented | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 daughter | det |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | image | the daughter = daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the daughter = daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | represent in a quote | participle | the daughter = daughter not said here | a white shield | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the daughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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