Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 5
The dragon, that guards buried treasure, lifted his head and gazed after them.
Who acts: guards, dragon · What happens: bury, lift, gaze · To what, where: treasure, head
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 (guards, dragon), 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 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guards | punct |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 guards | det |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dragon | conj |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guards | acl |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragon | punct |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | that guards not said here | treasure | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | the dragon and that guards | perfume's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | the dragon and that guards not said here | after dragon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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