Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 103

She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off, but the Christian priest held her back with all his might, and then sang a pious song, as if this could loosen the wicked charm that had changed her into the semblance of a frog.

Who acts: mercy, Christian priest, this, wicked charm · What happens: raise up, want, stop off, hold back, sing, loosen · To what, where: mercy, horse, pious song, wicked charm, semblance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mercy, Christian priest, this, wicked charm), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 raised	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 raised	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spring	cc
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	9 stop	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 priest	det
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 priest	amod
19	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 might	mark
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 might	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 might	nmod:poss
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 held	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sang	advmod
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 song	det
32	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 song	amod
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sang	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 loosen	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 loosen	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 loosen	mark
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 loosen	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 loosen	aux
39	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sang	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 charm	det
41	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 charm	amod
42	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 loosen	obj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 changed	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 changed	aux
45	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 charm	acl:relcl
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 changed	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 semblance	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 semblance	det
49	semblance	semblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 changed	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 frog	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 frog	det
52	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 semblance	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	raise up	past	mercy	mercy			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stop off not said to happen	to-infinitive		the horse and spring			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality
4	hold back	past	the Christian priest	mercy			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past		a pious song	then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	loosen a condition, not said to happen	could	this	the wicked charm			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent charm=Patient
7	change	past · perfect	the wicked charm	mercy		into the semblance of a frog result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into semblance=Result

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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