Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 40
The green band which fastened the wings of the bird to the mother's heart, where did it flutter now? whither had it been wafted?
Who acts: green band · What happens: fasten, flutter, waft · To what, where: wings
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 (green band), 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 | 3 band | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 band | amod |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flutter | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fastened | nsubj |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 band | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wings | det |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fastened | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wings | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flutter | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 flutter | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flutter | aux |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flutter | nsubj |
| 20 | flutter | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wafted | parataxis |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 flutter | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 flutter | punct |
| 23 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wafted | aux |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 wafted | aux:pass |
| 27 | wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 wafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | the green band | the wings of the bird | to the mother's heart | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient to heart=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | flutter | past · do-support | the green band | now | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | waft | past · perfect · passive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V» |
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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