Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 105

She had been told by the wise men, that if she laid her head on the breast of one of them, from the head she would learn where to find life and recovery for her father.

Who acts: wise men, princess · What happens: tell, lay, learn, find · To what, where: princess, head, breast, life · 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 (wise men, princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 laid	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 laid	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breast	det
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 breast	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 learn	punct
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 learn	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 learn	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 learn	aux
29	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 laid	conj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 find	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 learn	xcomp
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 recovery	cc
35	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 life	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 father	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the wise men	princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	lay a condition, not said to happen	past	princess	princess's head	the breast of one of heads		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on breast=Destination
3	learn	would	princess		the head		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source wh-S_INF»: agent=Agent from head=Source clause=Topic
4	find	to-infinitive	princess not said here	life and recovery		for princess's father	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent life=Theme for father=Beneficiary

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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