Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 90
She rose from her couch, stepped out on the threshold, and beheld, on the ridge of the roof, a party of storks ranged side by side.
Who acts: wife, storks · What happens: rise, step out, behold, range · To what, where: couch, threshold, ridge, side
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, storks), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 couch | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 couch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stepped | punct |
| 7 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 stepped | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 threshold | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 threshold | det |
| 11 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rose | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ridge | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ridge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ridge | det |
| 18 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 roof | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roof | det |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridge | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 party | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 party | det |
| 24 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridge | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 storks | case |
| 26 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 party | nmod |
| 27 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 storks | acl |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ranged | obl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | wife | wife's couch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from couch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | wife not said here | the threshold | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | behold | participle | wife not said here | the ridge of the roof a party of storks | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | range | participle | storks not said here | side by side | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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