Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 25

The first led him to a dark, narrow prison, in which sat a prisoner, a beautiful woman, daughter of Christian the Fourth, Eleanor Ulfeld, and the flame became a rose on her bosom, and its blossoms were not more pure than the heart of this noblest and best of all Danish women. "

Who acts: first, flame, blossoms, Ulfeld · What happens: lead, sit, become, be, bosom · To what, where: Denmark, dark narrow prison, prisoner, rose

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, flame, blossoms, Ulfeld), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 prison	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 prison	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prison	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prison	amod
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 prisoner	det
16	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woman	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prisoner	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 daughter	punct
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 woman	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Christian	case
24	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fourth	det
26	Fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 sat	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Ulfeld	punct
28	Eleanor	Eleanor	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Ulfeld	compound
29	Ulfeld	Ulfeld	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 became	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 flame	det
33	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 became	nsubj
34	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 rose	det
36	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 became	xcomp
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 bosom	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bosom	nmod:poss
39	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rose	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 pure	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 pure	cc
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 blossoms	nmod:poss
43	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 pure	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 pure	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 more	advmod
46	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 pure	advmod
47	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 became	parataxis
48	than	than	ADP	_	50 heart	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 heart	det
50	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pure	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 this	case
52	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 heart	nmod
53	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 pure	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 best	cc
55	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	53 noblest	advmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 women	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 women	det
58	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 women	amod
59	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 best	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the first	Denmark	a dark narrow prison		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination
2	sit	past		a prisoner		Eleanor Ulfeld obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prisoner=Theme
3	become	past	the flame	a rose on Ulfeld's bosom			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	bosom's blossoms			than the heart of this; pure property	tree rules
5	be		bosom's blossoms not said here			well property	tree rules
6	bosom		Ulfeld				nom bosom «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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