Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 22
She looked at the glittering stars, and thought of the radiance that had shone forth on the forehead of the dead man, as she had fled with him over the woodland and moor.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: look, think, shine, flee · To what, where: radiance, forehead, woodland
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), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 stars | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stars | det |
| 5 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stars | compound |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 radiance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 radiance | det |
| 12 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shone | aux |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 radiance | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 shone | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 forehead | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forehead | det |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shone | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forehead | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fled | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 fled | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fled | aux |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | obl |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 woodland | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 woodland | det |
| 33 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fled | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 moor | cc |
| 35 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 woodland | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Helga | at the glittering stars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | of the radiance | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | past · perfect · passive | the radiance | the forehead of the dead man | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | flee | past · perfect | Helga | the woodland and moor | with animal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over woodland=Initial_Location |
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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