Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 23
Tones were awakened in her memory; words which she had heard him speak as they rode onward, when she was carried, wondering and trembling, through the air; words from the great Fountain of love, the highest love that embraces all the human race.
Who acts: words, highest love · What happens: awaken, hear, speak, ride, carry, wonder · To what, where: Tones, memory, words, Helga, air, human race · 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 (words, highest 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 | Tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 memory | nmod:poss |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 words | punct |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 rode | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | ccomp |
| 18 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carried | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 carried | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rode | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wondering | punct |
| 25 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 carried | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 trembling | cc |
| 27 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 wondering | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 air | punct |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 air | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 air | det |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trembling | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 words | punct |
| 33 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 awakened | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 Fountain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Fountain | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Fountain | amod |
| 37 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 words | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 love | case |
| 39 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 words | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 love | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 love | det |
| 42 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 love | amod |
| 43 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 words | conj |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 embraces | nsubj |
| 45 | embraces | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 love | acl:relcl |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 race | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 race | det |
| 48 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 race | amod |
| 49 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 embraces | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | Tones | Helga's memory | words from the great Fountain of love and the highest love obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect · passive | words | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | words | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ride | past | words = word | onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | carry | past · passive | Helga | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | tremble | gerund | the air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||||
| 8 | embrace | present | the highest love | all human race | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Co-Agent | ||||
| 9 | word | love | the great Fountain | nom word «communication transitive»: from=place 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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