Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 114

The body, she knew, could do no harm to any one, but the spirit could pursue the lonely wanderer, attach itself to him, and demand to be carried to the churchyard, that it might rest in consecrated ground. "

Who acts: body, spirit, wanderer · What happens: know, do, pursue, attach, demand, carry · To what, where: body, harm, one, lonely wanderer, wanderer, spirit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, spirit, wanderer), 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 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 body	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 body	punct
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 harm	det
10	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pursue	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 pursue	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirit	det
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pursue	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pursue	aux
19	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wanderer	det
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wanderer	amod
22	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pursue	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attach	punct
24	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pursue	conj
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 attach	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attach	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 demand	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 demand	cc
30	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 attach	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 carried	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 carried	aux:pass
33	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 demand	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 churchyard	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 churchyard	det
36	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rest	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 rest	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rest	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 rest	aux
41	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 demand	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 ground	amod
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rest	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	body	the body not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus
2	do	could	the body	no harm	any one		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
3	pursue	could	the spirit	the lonely wanderer			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme
4	attach	infinitive	the spirit not said here	wanderer	spirit		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient to he=Co-Patient
5	demand speech: request	infinitive	the spirit not said here				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	carry	to-infinitive · passive	the spirit not said here			the churchyard	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to churchyard=Destination
7	rest	might	wanderer			consecrated ground	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location
8	consecrate	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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