Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 78

Her heart felt so light within her, that it seemed as if her husband and his soldiers, who were absent, must come home as suddenly and unexpectedly as the little child had done.

Who acts: heart, it, husband, little child · What happens: feel, seem, be, come, do

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 (heart, it, husband, little 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
6	within	within	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 seemed	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 soldiers	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 soldiers	nmod:poss
18	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 husband	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 absent	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 absent	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 absent	cop
22	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 husband	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 husband	punct
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 suddenly	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 unexpectedly	cc
30	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	_	28 suddenly	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 done	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 child	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 child	amod
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 done	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 done	aux
36	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 come	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	wife's heart	within wife; light property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	seem	past	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	is	past	wife's husband and arm's soldiers	absent property	tree rules
4	come a condition, not said to happen	must	wife's husband and arm's soldiers	home, suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	the little child		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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