Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 84
Then stork-papa turned his head towards here, listened to her words, and drew near. "
Who acts: stork papa, dread · What happens: turn, listen, draw, word · To what, where: head
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 (stork papa, dread), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 papa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
| 4 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 here | case |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listened | punct |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 listened | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | stork papa | papa's head | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards here=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | listen | past | stork papa not said here | to dread's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | stork papa not said here | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | word | dread | nom word «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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