Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 102

He was expected to return shortly; and were she to tell him, he would very likely, as was the custom at that time, expose the poor child in the public highway, and let any one take it away who would.

Who acts: sorcerer, wife, one · What happens: expect, return, tell, be, expose, let · To what, where: sorcerer, poor child, public highway, one, highway · 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 (sorcerer, wife, one), 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	3 expected	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expected	aux:pass
3	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 return	mark
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expected	xcomp
6	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	5 return	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expected	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 would	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 would	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADV	_	16 would	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 custom	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 custom	case
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 custom	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 custom	det
23	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 expose	punct
28	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 child	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 child	amod
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 expose	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 highway	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 highway	det
34	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 highway	amod
35	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 expose	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 let	obj
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	obj
43	away	away	ADV	_	41 take	advmod
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 would	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 take	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · passive		sorcerer					tree rules
2	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	sorcerer not said here					shortly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	wife		sorcerer		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past						as the custom	tree rules
5	expose	infinitive	wife not said here	the poor child		the public highway			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Topic
6	let	infinitive	wife not said here	any one					tree rules
7	take away	infinitive	any one not said here	highway				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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