Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 50

She hastened to cross the green, slimy ground; but it will not bear any weight, much less hers.

Who acts: child, ground · What happens: hasten, cross, not bear · To what, where: green slimy ground, weight

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 (child, ground), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hastened	nsubj
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cross	mark
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hastened	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ground	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 green	punct
8	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ground	amod
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 bear	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 bear	advmod
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hastened	advcl
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 weight	det
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hers	punct
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 less	advmod
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 hers	advmod
21	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bear	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hasten	past	child		tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive	child not said here	the green slimy ground	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient
3	not bear	future	ground	any weight	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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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