Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 23

She would often leap from the high shore into the sea with all her clothes on, and swim to meet the Viking, when his boat was steering home towards the shore.

Who acts: Viking, boat · What happens: leap, swim, meet, steer · To what, where: high shore, Viking, shore

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, boat), 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	4 leap	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leap	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 leap	advmod
4	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shore	amod
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leap	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leap	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 clothes	det:predet
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 clothes	nmod:poss
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 leap	obl
16	on	on	ADV	_	4 leap	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swim	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swim	cc
19	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leap	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 meet	mark
21	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 swim	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Viking	det
23	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 meet	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 steering	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 steering	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 boat	nmod:poss
27	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steering	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 steering	aux
29	steering	steer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 Viking	acl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 steering	advmod
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 shore	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shore	det
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steering	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leap	would	Viking		the high shore	into the sea; with Viking's clothes; often property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination
2	swim	present	Viking not said here				tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	Viking not said here	the Viking			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent viking=Co-Agent
4	steer	past · progressive	horse's boat		the shore	home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards shore=Destination

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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