Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 18

"In the hour of peril when most men fear, He clasped the bride that he held so dear, And proved himself the son of a King; Of his courage and valour let us sing."

Who acts: most men, Jurgen, us · What happens: fear, clasp, hold, prove, let, sing · To what, where: bride, Jurgen, us · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most men, Jurgen, us), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 hour	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clasped	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 peril	case
6	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hour	nmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 fear	mark
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fear	nsubj
10	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 clasped	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct
12	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clasped	nsubj
13	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bride	det
15	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clasped	obj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 held	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	nsubj
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clasped	advcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 dear	advmod
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 held	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proved	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 proved	cc
23	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clasped	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 proved	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 son	det
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 proved	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 King	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
31	Of	of	ADP	_	33 courage	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 courage	nmod:poss
33	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 let	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 valour	cc
35	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 courage	conj
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 clasped	ccomp
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear in a quote	present	most men				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	clasp in a quote	past	Jurgen	the bride	hour		tree rules
3	hold in a quote	past	Jurgen			dear property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prove in a quote	past	Jurgen not said here	Jurgen			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme son=Attribute
5	let in a quote	infinitive	Jurgen not said here	us		of Jurgen's courage and valour	tree rules
6	sing speech: express in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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