Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 41
Early in the spring, when the storks were again about to journey northward, beautiful Helga took off her golden bracelets, scratched her name on them, and beckoned to the stork-father.
Who acts: storks, Helga · What happens: be, take off, scratch, beckon, name · To what, where: journey, golden bracelets, name, stork father
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 (storks, 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 took | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spring | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journey | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 journey | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 storks | det |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 journey | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 journey | cop |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 about | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 journey | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 journey | mark |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spring | conj |
| 14 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 northward | punct |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Helga | amod |
| 17 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 journey | nmod |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bracelets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bracelets | amod |
| 22 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scratched | punct |
| 24 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scratched | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 scratched | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beckoned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 beckoned | cc |
| 31 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 took | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 father | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 father | det |
| 34 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 father | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 stork | punct |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beckoned | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the storks | journey | beautiful Helga nmod; about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take off | past | Helga's golden bracelets | spring | early property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme | |||
| 3 | scratch | past | Helga's name | on bracelets = bracelet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | beckon | participle | the stork father | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | name | Helga | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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