Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 69
The Viking's wife thought of it with wonder, thought on the miracles which they said could be performed by those who believed in the Christian faith, and followed its teachings.
Who acts: wife, miracles, those, faith · What happens: think, say, perform, believe, follow, teach · To what, where: wonder, miracles, Christian faith, teachings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, miracles, those, faith), 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 Viking | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Viking | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wonder | case |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wonder | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 miracles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 miracles | det |
| 14 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thought | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 said | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 miracles | acl:relcl |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 performed | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 performed | aux:pass |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 performed | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 believed | nsubj |
| 24 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 faith | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 faith | det |
| 27 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 faith | amod |
| 28 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 believed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 followed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 followed | cc |
| 31 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 teachings | nmod:poss |
| 33 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 followed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Viking's wife | of Viking; with wonder | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | wonder not said here | on the miracles | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on miracle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | miracles = miracle | the miracles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perform | could · passive | those | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | believe | past | the Christian faith | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | follow | past | faith's teachings | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teaching=Theme | |||||
| 7 | teach | faith | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=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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