Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 24

One of Jurgen's captors was a fisherman, a brother of the keeper of the castle, and he said it might be managed that Jurgen should be placed for the present in the dungeon at Vosborg, where Long Martha the gipsy had been shut up till her execution.

Who acts: One, Jurgen, Vosborg · What happens: be, say, manage, place, shut up, execute · To what, where: fisherman, castle, Jurgen, Vosborg, Long Martha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Jurgen, Vosborg), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fisherman	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 captors	case
3	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 captors	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jurgen	case
5	captors	captor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fisherman	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brother	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brother	det
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fisherman	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 keeper	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 keeper	det
14	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brother	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeper	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fisherman	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 managed	nsubj:pass
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 managed	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	aux:pass
25	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 placed	mark
27	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 placed	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 placed	aux:pass
30	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 managed	advcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 present	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 present	det
33	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 dungeon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dungeon	det
36	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 present	nmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 Vosborg	case
38	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 shut	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 shut	advmod
41	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Martha	amod
42	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 shut	nsubj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 gipsy	det
44	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shut	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 shut	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 shut	aux:pass
47	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 placed	conj
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 shut	compound:prt
49	till	till	ADP	_	51 execution	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 execution	nmod:poss
51	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shut	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fisherman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	One of Jurgen's captors	a fisherman and a brother of the keeper of the castle				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Jurgen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	manage	might · passive		castle				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	place	should · passive		Jurgen	Vosborg		for the present in the dungeon	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at vosborg=Destination
5	shut up	past · perfect · passive		Long Martha		till Vosborg's execution		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	execute		Vosborg					nom execution «act 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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