Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 21
She thought of the love that dwelt in the breast of the heathen woman, love that had been shown to a wretched creature, hateful as a human being, and hideous when in the form of an animal.
Who acts: Helga, love · What happens: think, dwell, show, be, form · To what, where: breast, love, wretched creature, animal
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 (Helga, love), 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 | _ | 5 love | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 love | det |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dwelt | nsubj |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 breast | det |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breast | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 shown | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shown | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 shown | aux:pass |
| 20 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 love | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 creature | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 creature | det |
| 23 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creature | amod |
| 24 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shown | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hateful | punct |
| 26 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creature | amod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 hideous | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hideous | det |
| 29 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hideous | amod |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 hideous | cop |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hideous | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hideous | cc |
| 33 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hateful | advcl |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 hideous | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 form | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 form | det |
| 37 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 when | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 animal | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 animal | det |
| 40 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 form | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Helga | of the love and love | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the love and love | the breast of the heathen woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location | ||||
| 3 | show | past · perfect · passive | love | a wretched creature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to creature=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | hideous property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | form | a animal | 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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