Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 99
Who would be able to loosen this wicked charm which the sorcerer had worked upon it?
Who acts: sorcerer · What happens: be, loosen, work · To what, where: wicked charm
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 (sorcerer), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 loosen | mark |
| 6 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 charm | det |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 charm | amod |
| 9 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loosen | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 worked | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sorcerer | det |
| 12 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worked | aux |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 charm | acl:relcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worked | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | loosen | to-infinitive | this wicked charm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | |||||
| 3 | work | past · perfect | the sorcerer | this wicked charm | upon charm | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent which=Material |
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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