Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 14

A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed, cattle were slain and served up, that they might feast in reality, The priest who offered the sacrifice sprinkled the devoted parishioners with the warm blood; the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled along beneath the roof; the soot fell upon them from the beams; but they were used to all these things.

Who acts: cattle, priest, sacrifice, fire, smoke, soot · What happens: draw, blaze, slay, serve up, feast, offer · To what, where: great cask, hall, wood, cattle, reality, devoted parishioners

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 (cattle, priest, sacrifice, fire), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cask	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cask	amod
3	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mead	case
5	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cask	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	aux:pass
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 piles	punct
12	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hall	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wood	case
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piles	nmod
15	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wood	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slain	punct
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 slain	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slain	aux:pass
19	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 drawn	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 served	cc
21	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 slain	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 served	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feast	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 feast	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feast	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 feast	aux
27	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drawn	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 reality	case
29	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feast	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 priest	punct
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 priest	det
32	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reality	appos
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 offered	nsubj
34	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 priest	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sacrifice	det
36	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sprinkled	nsubj
37	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 offered	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 parishioners	det
39	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 parishioners	amod
40	parishioners	parishioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sprinkled	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 blood	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 blood	det
43	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 blood	amod
44	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 parishioners	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 crackled	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fire	det
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 crackled	nsubj
48	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rolled	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 rolled	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 smoke	det
52	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rolled	nsubj
53	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 crackled	conj
54	along	along	ADV	_	53 rolled	advmod
55	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	57 roof	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 roof	det
57	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rolled	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 fell	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 soot	det
60	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 fell	nsubj
61	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 crackled	conj
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 fell	obl
64	from	from	ADP	_	66 beams	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 beams	det
66	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 fell	obl
67	;	;	PUNCT	_	71 used	punct
68	but	but	CCONJ	_	71 used	cc
69	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 used	nsubj:pass
70	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 used	aux:pass
71	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 drawn	conj
72	to	to	ADP	_	75 things	case
73	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	75 things	det:predet
74	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	75 things	det
75	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 used	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive		a great cask of mead		into the hall and piles of wood result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient into hall=Result
2	blaze	participle		wood not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slay	past · passive		cattle			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	serve up	participle					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	feast	might	cattle		reality		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	offer	past	the priest				tree rules
7	sprinkle	past	the sacrifice	the devoted parishioners		with the warm blood	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent parishioner=Destination with blood=Theme
8	crackle	past	the fire				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	roll	past	the smoke		the roof	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath roof=Trajectory
10	fall	past	the soot		the beams	upon cattle	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
11	use	past · passive		cattle		to all things	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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