Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 10

It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, with such a wild expanse of marsh and lake, how lonely and dreary it must have been a thousand years ago.

Who acts: one, place · What happens: call, imagine, be · To what, where: place, thousand years · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, place), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 called	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	aux:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moor	det
7	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	8 Moor	flat
8	Moor	Moor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 imagine	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 imagine	cc
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 imagine	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 imagine	aux
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	14 imagine	advmod
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expanse	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 expanse	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 expanse	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 expanse	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 expanse	amod
20	expanse	expanse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 imagine	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 marsh	case
22	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expanse	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lake	cc
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expanse	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lonely	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 lonely	advmod
27	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 expanse	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dreary	cc
29	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lonely	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 years	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 years	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 years	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 years	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thousand	det
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lonely	parataxis
37	ago	ago	ADV	_	36 years	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	may · passive		place	well property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	imagine	can	one		easily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	must · perfect	place	thousand years	ago property	tree rules

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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