Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 38
He caused himself to be lifted on his war-horse; the color came into his cheeks, and his strength returned to him again as he went forth to battle and to victory.
Who acts: knight, color, strength · What happens: cause, lift, come, return, go, battle · To what, where: knight, cheeks
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, color, strength), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 caused | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lifted | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lifted | aux:pass |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caused | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 war | punct |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 color | det |
| 14 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 cheeks | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 returned | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | obl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 returned | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 went | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 returned | advcl |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 battle | mark |
| 32 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 went | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 victory | cc |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 victory | case |
| 35 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 battle | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | knight | knight | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive · passive | knight not said here | on knight's war horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the color | knight's cheeks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cheek=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | return | past | knight's strength | knight | again | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result | |||
| 5 | go | past | knight | forth property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | battle | to-infinitive | knight not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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