Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 47

"The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules.

Who acts: princess, tears, elder stump, king · What happens: weep, lament, moisten, not be, live · To what, where: elder stump, marshy ground

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 (princess, tears, elder stump, king), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lamented	cc
6	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 lamented	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 moistened	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tears	nmod:poss
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 moistened	nsubj
11	moistened	moisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stump	det
13	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stump	amod
14	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moistened	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stump	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stump	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stump	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	22 stump	advmod
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 stump	advmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stump	det
21	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stump	amod
22	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stump	appos
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 himself	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
25	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 King	compound
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 himself	nsubj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 stump	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lives	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lives	nsubj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lives	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ground	amod
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lives	obl
34	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rules	cc
36	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lives	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep in a quote	past	the princess				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lament in a quote	past	the princess not said here			aloud property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	moisten in a quote	past	mamma's tears	the elder stump			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stump=Patient
4	not is a in a quote	past	the elder stump	a elder stump			tree rules
5	live in a quote	present	king		marshy ground		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location

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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