Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 9
Beautiful Helga's voice joined with his in the hymns he sung, as a child joins in her mother's song.
Who acts: voice, child, mother · What happens: join, hymn, sing
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 (voice, child, mother), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Helga | amod |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Helga | case |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hymns | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hymns | nmod:poss |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hymns | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hymns | det |
| 10 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 joined | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sung | nsubj |
| 12 | sung | sung | ADV | _ | 10 hymns | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joins | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 joins | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joins | nsubj |
| 17 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 joined | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 song | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joins | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | Beautiful Helga's voice | with voice's hymns | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with hymn=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | present | a child | in child's mother's song | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hymn | voice | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing | child's mother | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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