Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 29
But there was one time of the day which placed a check upon Helga.
Who acts: one time, day · What happens: be, place · To what, where: check
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 (one time, day), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 time | nummod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 check | det |
| 12 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 Helga | case |
| 14 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 check | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one time of the day | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | the day | a check | upon Helga | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent check=Theme upon helga=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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