Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 22

Without a saddle, she would sit on a horse as if she were a part of it, while it rushed along at full speed; nor would she spring from its back, even when it quarrelled with other horses and bit them.

Who acts: Viking, part · What happens: sit, be, rush, spring, quarrell, bite · To what, where: part, full speed, back, words

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, part), 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	Without	without	ADP	_	3 saddle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 saddle	det
3	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saddle	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sit	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	aux
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 part	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 part	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 part	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 part	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rushed	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 rushed	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rushed	nsubj
22	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	conj
23	along	along	ADV	_	22 rushed	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 speed	case
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 speed	amod
26	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rushed	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 spring	punct
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 spring	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 spring	aux
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spring	nsubj
31	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spring	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 quarrelled	punct
36	even	even	ADV	_	39 quarrelled	advmod
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 quarrelled	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 quarrelled	nsubj
39	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	parataxis
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 horses	case
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 horses	amod
42	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 quarrelled	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bit	cc
44	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 quarrelled	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bit	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	would	Viking			without a saddle; on a horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location
2	is a	past	Viking	a part		of part	tree rules
3	rush	past	part		full speed	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory
4	spring	would	Viking		part's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from back=Trajectory
5	quarrell	past	part			with other horses	tree rules
6	bite	past	part not said here	words = word			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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