Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 103

The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she therefore resolved that the Viking should never see the child excepting by daylight.

Who acts: good wife, that, wife, Viking, child · What happens: not let, happen, resolve, not see, except · To what, where: child

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 (good wife, that, wife, Viking), 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	3 wife	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Viking	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Viking	det
6	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 happen	nsubj
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 resolved	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 resolved	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 resolved	nsubj
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 resolved	advmod
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Viking	det
19	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 see	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 resolved	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 child	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 daylight	case
27	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 excepting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not let	could	the good wife of the Viking			tree rules
2	happen	infinitive	that			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	resolve	past	wife		therefore property	tree rules
4	not see	should	the Viking	the child		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	except	gerund	the child not said here		by daylight	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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