Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 28
I observed the clefts and wrinkles in the stem; they shone forth in strange colors, and took the form of hieroglyphics.
Who acts: I, clefts · What happens: observe, shine, take, form · To what, where: clefts, stem, strange colors, form, hieroglyphics
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 (I, clefts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6407): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 observed | nsubj |
| 2 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clefts | det |
| 4 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 observed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrinkles | cc |
| 6 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clefts | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stem | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stem | det |
| 9 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clefts | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 observed | parataxis |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 shone | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 colors | case |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 colors | amod |
| 16 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shone | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shone | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 form | det |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hieroglyphics | case |
| 23 | hieroglyphics | hieroglyphic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 form | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | I | the clefts and wrinkles | the stem | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cleft=Topic | |||
| 2 | shine | past | clefts = cleft | strange colors | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in color=Location | |||
| 3 | take | past | clefts = cleft not said here | the form of hieroglyphics | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | hieroglyphics | nom form «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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