Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 67

She groped in amongst the ugly nettles, which burnt great blisters on her hands and arms, but she determined to bear it gladly if she could only release her dear brothers.

Who acts: life, ugly nettles · What happens: grope, burnt, determine, bear, release · To what, where: ugly nettles, great blisters, hands, nettle, dear brothers

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 (life, ugly nettles), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 groped	nsubj
2	groped	grope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 nettles	case
4	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	7 nettles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nettles	det
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nettles	amod
7	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 burnt	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 burnt	nsubj
10	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nettles	acl:relcl
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blisters	amod
12	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burnt	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burnt	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arms	cc
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hands	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 determined	nsubj
21	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 groped	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bear	mark
23	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bear	obj
25	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	23 bear	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 release	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 release	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 release	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 release	advmod
30	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bear	advcl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
32	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 brothers	amod
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 release	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 groped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grope	past	life		the ugly nettles		vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in nettle=Location
2	burnt	past	the ugly nettles	great blisters	life's hands and arms		tree rules
3	determine	past	life				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bear	to-infinitive	life not said here	nettle		gladly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	release a condition, not said to happen	could	life	life's dear brothers			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer brother=Source

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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