Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 2
Then the learned men hastened to note down, in flying characters, the story of the two princesses, and spoke of the arrival of the health-giving flower as a mighty event, which had been a blessing to the house and the land.
Who acts: learned men, mighty event, giving flower · What happens: learn, hasten, note down, fly, speak, give · To what, where: flying characters, blessing · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned men, mighty event, giving flower), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hastened | nsubj |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 note | mark |
| 7 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hastened | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 note | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 characters | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 characters | case |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 characters | amod |
| 12 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 note | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 characters | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 princesses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princesses | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 princesses | nummod |
| 19 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 story | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoke | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoke | cc |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hastened | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 arrival | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arrival | det |
| 25 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 flower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 flower | det |
| 28 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 giving | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 health | punct |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 flower | amod |
| 31 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arrival | nmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 event | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 event | det |
| 34 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 event | amod |
| 35 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 blessing | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 blessing | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 blessing | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 blessing | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 blessing | det |
| 41 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 event | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 house | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 house | det |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blessing | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 land | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 land | det |
| 47 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 event | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the learned men | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | note down | to-infinitive | the learned men not said here | flying characters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | the learned men not said here | of the arrival of the giving flower; as a mighty event and a blessing and the land | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past · perfect | a mighty event and a blessing and the land | a blessing | to the house | tree rules | |||
| 8 | arrive | the giving flower | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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