Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 26

He said the little maiden would grow up to be a heroine, with the strong will and determination of a man.

Who acts: bard, little maiden, man · What happens: say, grow up, be, determine · To what, where: heroine · 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 (bard, little maiden, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maiden	amod
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	aux
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grow	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	12 heroine	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 heroine	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heroine	det
12	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 will	punct
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 will	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 strong	det
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 will	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 determination	cc
19	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 will	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 man	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 determination	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bard		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow up	would	the little maiden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	the little maiden not said here	a heroine	tree rules
4	determine		a man		nom determination «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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