Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 8

It is said that in olden times the place was a lake, the ground of which had heaved up from beneath, and now the moorland extends for miles in every direction, and is surrounded by damp meadows, trembling, undulating swamps, and marshy ground covered with turf, on which grow bilberry bushes and stunted trees.

Who acts: place, moorland, damp meadows · What happens: say, be, heave up, extend, surround, tremble · To what, where: wilderness, lake, direction, swamps, marshy ground, bilberry bushes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (place, moorland, damp meadows), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lake	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lake	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lake	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lake	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ground	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lake	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 heaved	obl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heaved	aux
19	heaved	heave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 ground	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 heaved	compound:prt
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 beneath	case
22	beneath	beneath	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 heaved	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 extends	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 extends	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 extends	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moorland	det
27	moorland	moorland	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 extends	nsubj
28	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 heaved	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 miles	case
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 extends	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 direction	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 direction	det
33	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 extends	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 surrounded	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 surrounded	cc
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 surrounded	aux:pass
37	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 extends	advcl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 meadows	case
39	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 meadows	amod
40	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 surrounded	obl:agent
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 trembling	punct
42	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 meadows	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 undulating	punct
44	undulating	undulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 trembling	conj
45	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 undulating	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 covered	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 covered	cc
48	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 ground	amod
49	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 covered	nsubj:pass
50	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 turf	case
52	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 covered	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 grow	punct
54	on	on	ADP	_	55 which	case
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 grow	nsubj
56	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 covered	conj
57	bilberry	bilberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bushes	compound
58	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 grow	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 stunted	cc
60	stunted	stunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 grow	conj
61	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 stunted	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		wilderness				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	past	the place	a lake		time		tree rules
3	heave up	past · perfect					of the ground	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of which=Initial_Location
4	extend	present	the moorland		every direction	now	for miles	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
5	surround	present · passive	damp meadows					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	tremble	gerund	damp meadows not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	undulate	gerund	damp meadows not said here	swamps				vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swamp=Theme
8	cover	participle · passive		marshy ground			with turf	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with turf=Theme
9	grow	present		bilberry bushes				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme
10	stunt	past		trees				tree rules

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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