Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 60

The blood streamed down over Jurgen's face; he seemed dead, but still held the young girl so tightly that they were obliged to take her from him by force.

Who acts: blood · What happens: stream down, seem, hold, oblige, take · To what, where: blood, face, young girl, fishermen, girl

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 (blood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	nsubj
3	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blood	acl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 streamed	compound:prt
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 face	case
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jurgen	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 streamed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 held	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 held	cc
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 held	advmod
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 held	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 tightly	advmod
21	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 obliged	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 obliged	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 obliged	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obliged	aux:pass
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 held	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 obliged	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 force	case
32	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stream down	participle		the blood not said here	Jurgen's face			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Location
2	seem	past	the blood				dead property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past	the blood not said here	the young girl		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
4	oblige	past · passive		fishermen = fisherman			tightly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	take	to-infinitive		girl			from Jurgen; by force	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from he=Initial_Location

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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