Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 36

He went with his warriors to the coast of Britain; he said that it was but an excursion of pleasure across the water, so his wife remained at home with the little girl.

Who acts: Viking, coast, wife · What happens: go, say, be, remain · To what, where: coast, excursion, home · 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 (Viking, coast, wife), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 warriors	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 warriors	nmod:poss
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 coast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coast	det
8	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 coast	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 excursion	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 excursion	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 excursion	cop
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 excursion	cc
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 excursion	det
19	excursion	excursion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 pleasure	case
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 excursion	nmod
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pleasure	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 remained	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 remained	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	nsubj
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 girl	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 girl	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 girl	amod
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Viking		the coast of Britain	with Viking's warriors	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coast=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Viking				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	coast	a excursion		of pleasure across the water	tree rules
4	remain	past	Viking's wife		home	with the little girl	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=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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