Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 59

And in this manner many of the young ladies and gentlemen were betrothed to each other: it was, of course, what they wanted, and indeed what they lived for.

Who acts: blood, gentlemen · What happens: betroth, be, want, live · To what, where: many, each, manner, course

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 (blood, gentlemen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 betrothed	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 manner	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 manner	det
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betrothed	obl
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 betrothed	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 many	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gentlemen	cc
11	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ladies	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 betrothed	aux:pass
13	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 betrothed	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 course	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 course	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 course	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 course	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 course	case
22	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betrothed	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wanted	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 course	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 what	cc
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 what	advmod
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wanted	parataxis
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lived	nsubj
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	32 lived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 betrothed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	betroth	past · passive		many of the young ladies and gentlemen	each	this manner		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to each=Recipient
2	is	past	blood				of course	tree rules
3	want	past	gentlemen = gentleman	course				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	live	past	gentlemen = gentleman					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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