Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 7
Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles.
Who acts: goblins · What happens: fly, reach, hover · To what, where: woodland, wild moor
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 (goblins), 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:pg27200:6386): 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 woodland | case |
| 2 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heath | cc |
| 4 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woodland | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flood | punct |
| 6 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woodland | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fen | cc |
| 8 | fen | fen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woodland | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woodland | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 flew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moor | det |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moor | amod |
| 19 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hovered | punct |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hovered | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hovered | nsubj |
| 24 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 moor | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 circles | case |
| 26 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 circles | amod |
| 27 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hovered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | goblins = goblin | woodland and heath and flood and fen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over woodland=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | goblins = goblin | the wild moor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hover | past | goblins = goblin | the wild moor | in broad circles | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Location |
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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