Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 95

After two or three days had passed, it became clear to the Viking's wife how matters stood with the child; it was under the influence of a powerful sorcerer.

Who acts: favor, matters · What happens: pass, become, stand, be · To what, where: two days, influence

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 (favor, matters), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	7 passed	mark
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 three	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 two	conj
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Viking	det
14	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Viking	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clear	obl
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 stood	advmod
18	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wife	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 child	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 child	det
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 influence	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 influence	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 influence	cop
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 influence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 influence	det
28	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sorcerer	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sorcerer	det
31	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sorcerer	amod
32	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 influence	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		two days			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	become	past	favor			clear property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past	matters			with the child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	favor		the influence	of a powerful sorcerer	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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