Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 97
And so it was; Helga understood it all now, and sank on her knees.
Who acts: swan · What happens: be, sink · To what, where: knees
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 (swan), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 understood | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 understood | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 understood | cop |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
| 6 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 understood | obj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 now | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 understood | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sank | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sank | cc |
| 13 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 understood | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 knees | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knees | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sank | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | swan | now | understand property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | past | Helga's knees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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