Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 21
But the Viking treated her words as a joke; he was, like every one else, bewitched with her beauty, and knew nothing of the change in the form and temper of Helga at night.
Who acts: Viking, enemy · What happens: treat, be, bewitch, know, word, temper · To what, where: words, nothing, form, Helga
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 (Viking, enemy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 treated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Viking | det |
| 3 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | nsubj |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treated | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 joke | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | parataxis |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewitched | punct |
| 19 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 one | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 beauty | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewitched | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 knew | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 change | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 change | det |
| 29 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nothing | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 form | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 form | det |
| 32 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 temper | cc |
| 34 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 form | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Helga | case |
| 36 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 temper | nmod |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the Viking | Viking's words | as a joke | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme as joke=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | enemy | like every one; else property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | participle | enemy not said here | with Viking's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | past | the Viking not said here | nothing | the form and temper of Helga | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | word | Viking | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | temper | Helga | nom temper «feeling transitive»: of=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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