Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 17
It was a pleasure to her to splash about with her white hands in the warm blood of the horse which had been slain for sacrifice.
What happens: be, splash about, slay · To what, where: pleasure, child, warm blood, horse
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pleasure | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasure | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pleasure | det |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pleasure | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 splash | mark |
| 8 | splash | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasure | acl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 splash | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hands | amod |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 splash | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blood | amod |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splash | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blood | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slain | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 slain | aux:pass |
| 24 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 horse | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sacrifice | case |
| 26 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slain | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a pleasure | child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | splash about | to-infinitive | the warm blood of the horse | with child's white hands; about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blood=Location | ||||
| 3 | slay | past · perfect · passive | the horse | for sacrifice | vn murder-42.1 «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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