Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 32
She inquired about them, and for the first time heard the legend which the Egyptians relate respecting the ostrich.
Who acts: daring, Egyptians · What happens: inquire, hear, relate, respect · To what, where: legend, ostrich
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 (daring, Egyptians), 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 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 inquired | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legend | det |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 relate | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Egyptians | det |
| 16 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 relate | nsubj |
| 17 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 legend | acl:relcl |
| 18 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 relate | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ostrich | det |
| 20 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 respecting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | daring | about wings = wing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | daring not said here | the legend | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | relate | present | the Egyptians | the legend | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | respect | gerund | the Egyptians not said here | the ostrich | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ostrich=Stimulus |
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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