Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 102
At last it was decided that help could only come from the princess herself, whose whole soul was wrapped up in her father, especially as a plan had been adopted by her to enable her to obtain a remedy.
Who acts: help · What happens: decide, come, wrap up, adopt, enable, obtain · To what, where: recipe, last, help, plan, remedy · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decided | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decided | aux:pass |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wrapped | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 soul | nmod:poss |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soul | amod |
| 18 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 20 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 princess | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wrapped | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 adopted | punct |
| 26 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 32 adopted | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 adopted | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 plan | det |
| 29 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 adopted | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 adopted | aux:pass |
| 32 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 come | parataxis |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 adopted | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 enable | mark |
| 36 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 adopted | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 enable | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 obtain | mark |
| 39 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 enable | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 remedy | det |
| 41 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 obtain | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | recipe | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | could | help | from the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | wrap up | past · passive | help | in help's father | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in father=Destination | ||||
| 4 | adopt | past · perfect · passive | help | a plan | especially property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | enable | to-infinitive | help not said here | help | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obtain | to-infinitive | help not said here | a remedy | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remedy=Theme |
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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