Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 34

Then the Viking's wife took her on her lap, and forgot the ugly form, as she looked into the mournful eyes, and often said, "I could wish that thou wouldst always remain my dumb frog child, for thou art too terrible when thou art clothed in a form of beauty."

Who acts: wife, transformation, I, that · What happens: take, forget, look, say, wish, remain · To what, where: transformation, lap, ugly form, dumb frog child, thou, form · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, transformation, I, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Viking	det
3	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Viking	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 lap	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lap	nmod:poss
10	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgot	cc
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 form	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgot	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 looked	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgot	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eyes	det
23	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	often	often	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
28	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 wish	aux
33	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 remain	nsubj:outer
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 remain	nsubj
36	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	38 remain	aux
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 remain	advmod
38	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wish	ccomp
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 child	nmod:poss
40	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 child	amod
41	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 child	compound
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 remain	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 art	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 art	mark
45	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 art	nsubj
46	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wish	conj
47	too	too	ADV	_	48 terrible	advmod
48	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 art	xcomp
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 clothed	advmod
50	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	52 clothed	nsubj:pass
51	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 clothed	aux
52	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 art	advcl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 form	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 form	det
55	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 clothed	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 beauty	case
57	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 form	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Viking's wife	transformation	transformation's lap	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination
2	forget	past	the Viking's wife not said here	the ugly form				tree rules
3	look	past	transformation				into the mournful eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
4	say speech: assert	participle					often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wish in a quote	could	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	remain in a quote	would	that	my dumb frog child			always property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Attribute
7	clothe in a quote	present · passive		thou	a form of beauty			vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	form in a quote			beauty				nom form «communication 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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