Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 93
She thought of Helga in the form of a swan.
Who acts: wife · What happens: think, form · To what, where: form, swan
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Helga | case |
| 4 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 form | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 form | det |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 swan | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 swan | det |
| 10 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | wife | the form of a swan | of Helga | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | form | a swan | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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