Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 88
She knew it was the time for the storks to depart, and that it must be their wings which she heard.
Who acts: wife, sound · What happens: know, be, depart, hear · To what, where: time, wings · 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, sound), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 storks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 storks | det |
| 9 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 depart | mark |
| 11 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wings | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wings | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 wings | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wings | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wings | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wings | cop |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 heard | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wings | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | sound | the time | for the storks | tree rules | |||
| 3 | depart | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | sound | troops's wings | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | wife | troops's wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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