Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 12

They were returning home, richly laden with spoil from the Gallic coast, where the people, as did also the inhabitants of Britain, often cried in alarm, "Deliver us from the wild northmen."

Who acts: men, people · What happens: return, lade, do, cry, deliver · To what, where: inhabitants, alarm, us, wild northmen · 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 (men, people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returning	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returning	aux
3	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 returning	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laden	punct
6	richly	richly	ADV	_	7 laden	advmod
7	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 returning	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 spoil	case
9	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laden	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 coast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coast	det
12	Gallic	gallic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coast	amod
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoil	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 where	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 spoil	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 where	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 people	acl:relcl
21	also	also	ADV	_	23 inhabitants	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 inhabitants	det
23	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 did	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Britain	case
25	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 inhabitants	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
27	often	often	ADV	_	28 cried	advmod
28	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 inhabitants	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 alarm	case
30	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cried	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Deliver	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Deliver	punct
33	Deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 cried	parataxis
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 Deliver	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 northmen	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 northmen	det
37	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 northmen	amod
38	northmen	northman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Deliver	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 inhabitants	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 inhabitants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive	men = man			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lade	participle	men = man not said here			with spoil from the Gallic coast; richly property	tree rules
3	do	past	the people not said here	the inhabitants of Britain			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	participle			alarm	often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	deliver in a quote	infinitive		us	the wild northmen		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from northman=Initial_Location

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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