Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 21
The mother's heart beat quickly, and she understood the quickened pulses. "
Who acts: heart · What happens: beat, understand, quicken · To what, where: quickened pulses
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 (heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mother | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 beat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 understood | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pulses | det |
| 12 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pulses | amod |
| 13 | pulses | pulse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 understood | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the mother's heart | quickly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | heart | the quickened pulses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pulse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | quicken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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