Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 14

The people, certainly, in those days, wore very different dresses to those they now wear, but if any of them, be he huntsman or squire, master or servant, ventured on the wavering, undulating, marshy ground of the moor, they met with the same fate a thousand years ago as they would now.

Who acts: people, fly · What happens: wear, be, venture, undulate, meet · To what, where: different dresses, huntsman, wavering

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 (people, fly), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wore	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 certainly	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 people	punct
10	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 different	advmod
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dresses	amod
13	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wore	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 wore	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wear	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 wear	advmod
18	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 those	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 met	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 met	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 huntsman	mark
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 huntsman	det
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 any	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 any	punct
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 huntsman	cop
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 huntsman	nsubj
28	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 met	advcl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 squire	cc
30	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 huntsman	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 master	punct
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 huntsman	appos
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 servant	cc
34	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 master	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ventured	punct
36	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 huntsman	parataxis
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 wavering	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wavering	det
39	wavering	wavering	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ventured	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 undulating	punct
41	undulating	undulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 wavering	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ground	punct
43	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ground	amod
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wavering	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 moor	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 moor	det
47	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ground	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 huntsman	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 met	nsubj
50	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wore	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	54 fate	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 fate	det
53	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fate	amod
54	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 met	obl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 thousand	det
56	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 years	nummod
57	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 ago	obl:unmarked
58	ago	ago	ADV	_	50 met	advmod
59	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 would	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 would	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 ago	advcl
62	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 would	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the people and that days	different dresses			to those	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
2	wear	present	people			now		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	fly	any huntsman or squire				tree rules
4	venture	participle			the wavering and marshy ground of the moor			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	undulate	gerund						vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	meet	past	people				with the same fate; ago property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fate=Co-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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