Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 27

It was sometimes as if Helga acted from sheer wickedness; for often when her mother stood on the threshold of the door, or stepped into the yard, she would seat herself on the brink of the well, wave her arms and legs in the air, and suddenly fall right in.

Who acts: power, mother, Viking · What happens: be, stand, step, seat, wave, fall · To what, where: sheer wickedness, Viking, threshold, arms

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 (power, mother, Viking), 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	7 acted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 acted	cop
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 acted	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 acted	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 acted	mark
6	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 acted	nsubj
7	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wickedness	case
9	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wickedness	amod
10	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acted	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 stood	mark
13	often	often	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stood	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 acted	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 threshold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 threshold	det
20	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threshold	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stepped	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 stepped	cc
26	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stood	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 yard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 yard	det
29	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seat	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seat	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 seat	aux
33	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 stood	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 brink	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 brink	det
37	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 well	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 well	det
40	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brink	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wave	punct
42	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stood	conj
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 arms	nmod:poss
44	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 wave	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 legs	cc
46	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 arms	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 air	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 air	det
49	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wave	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fall	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fall	cc
52	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	53 fall	advmod
53	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wave	conj
54	right	right	ADV	_	55 in	advmod
55	in	in	ADV	_	53 fall	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	power		sheer wickedness	act, sometimes property	tree rules
2	stand	past	Viking's mother	Viking	the threshold of the door	on the brink of the well; often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on threshold=Location
3	step	participle	Viking's mother not said here			into the yard	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into yard=Destination
4	seat	would	Viking				tree rules
5	wave	infinitive	Viking's mother not said here	Viking's arms and legs		in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Patient in air=Theme
6	fall	infinitive	Viking's mother not said here			suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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