Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 109

The marriage was still to take place, and the archbishop himself had to place the crown on the bride's head; in his wicked spite, he pressed the narrow circlet so tightly on her forehead that it caused her pain.

Who acts: marriage, archbishop, head · What happens: be, have, press, cause, spite, pain · To what, where: place, head, narrow circlet, wicked spite, pain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, archbishop, head), 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 marriage	det
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 archbishop	det
11	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	11 archbishop	nmod:unmarked
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 place	mark
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crown	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bride	det
20	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 head	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 bride	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pressed	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 spite	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spite	nmod:poss
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spite	amod
27	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pressed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spite	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pressed	nsubj
30	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 circlet	det
32	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 circlet	amod
33	circlet	circlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pressed	obj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 tightly	advmod
35	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	38 forehead	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 forehead	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 forehead	nmod:poss
38	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pressed	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 caused	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 caused	nsubj
41	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pressed	advcl
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 pain	nmod:poss
43	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 caused	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the marriage			still	take property	tree rules
2	have	past	the archbishop archbishop	place	the bride's head			tree rules
3	press	past	archbishop	the narrow circlet	archbishop's wicked spite		on head's forehead	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme
4	cause	past	marriage	head's pain				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient
5	spite		archbishop					nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	pain		head					nom pain «state 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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