Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 55
They were away now in the far north, but expected to return very soon.
Who acts: nostrils · What happens: be, expect, return · To what, where: far north
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 (nostrils), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 away | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 away | cop |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 expected | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 away | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 north | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 north | amod |
| 8 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 away | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 expected | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 expected | cc |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expected | xcomp |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 return | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nostrils = nostril | the far north | now | away property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | expect | past | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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