Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 2
A sweet perfume arose from it, while the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest, shone with the rays of a diamond.
Who acts: sweet perfume · What happens: arise, shine, ray · To what, where: house, open wound, diamond
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 (sweet perfume), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 perfume | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 perfume | amod |
| 3 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wound | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 wound | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wound | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wound | amod |
| 11 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forehead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forehead | det |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wound | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 priest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priest | det |
| 17 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 priest | compound |
| 18 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forehead | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shone | punct |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wound | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 rays | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rays | det |
| 23 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shone | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 diamond | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 diamond | det |
| 26 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rays | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a sweet perfume | house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest not said here | with the rays of a diamond | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ray=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ray | a diamond | nom ray «phenomenon 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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