Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 53

And now the princess is buried in the wild marsh, she will never now carry flowers to Egypt to cure her father.

Who acts: child · What happens: bury, not carry, cure · To what, where: princess, wild marsh, flowers, Egypt, father

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 buried	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 buried	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 marsh	amod
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carry	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carry	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 carry	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 carry	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 carry	advmod
16	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	conj
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carry	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Egypt	case
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 carry	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cure	mark
21	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 carry	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cure	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bury	present · passive		the princess		the wild marsh	now	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in marsh=Destination
2	not carry	future	child	flowers	Egypt		now	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to egypt=Destination
3	cure	to-infinitive	child not said here	child's father				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer father=Source

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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