Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 2

Many a poor mother fled, her naked baby in her arms, behind the still smoking walls of her cottage; but also there the soldiers followed her, and when they found her, she served as new nourishment to their diabolical enjoyments; demons could not possibly have done worse things than these soldiers!

Who acts: Many, soldiers, mother, demons · What happens: flee, follow, find, serve, not do, enjoy · To what, where: mother, worse things

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, soldiers, mother, demons), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fled	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fled	nsubj
5	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 baby	punct
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 baby	nmod:poss
8	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 baby	amod
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fled	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 baby	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walls	punct
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 walls	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 walls	advmod
17	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walls	compound
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fled	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 cottage	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cottage	nmod:poss
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walls	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 followed	cc
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 there	advmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 followed	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 soldiers	det
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 followed	nsubj
28	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fled	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 served	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 served	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 found	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 found	nsubj
34	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 served	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 found	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 found	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 served	nsubj
38	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fled	conj
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 nourishment	case
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 nourishment	amod
41	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 served	obl
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 enjoyments	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 enjoyments	nmod:poss
44	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 enjoyments	amod
45	enjoyments	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 served	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 done	punct
47	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 done	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 done	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 done	advmod
50	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	52 done	advmod
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 done	aux
52	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fled	conj
53	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 things	amod
54	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 done	obj
55	than	than	ADP	_	57 soldiers	case
56	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	57 soldiers	det
57	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 things	nmod
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	Many				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past	the soldiers	mother	there		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	find	past	soldiers = soldier	mother			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	serve	past	mother			as new nourishment; to soldiers's diabolical enjoyments	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as nourishment=Attribute
5	not do	could · perfect	demons	worse things		than this soldiers; possibly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	enjoy		soldiers = soldier				nom enjoyment «feeling 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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