Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 35

And the Viking woman wrote Runic characters against sorcery and spells of sickness, and threw them over the wretched child; but they did no good.

Who acts: Viking woman, spells · What happens: write, throw, do, spell · To what, where: Runic characters, spells, good, sickness

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 woman, spells), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrote	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woman	compound
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Runic	runic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 characters	amod
7	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 sorcery	case
9	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characters	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spells	cc
11	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 characters	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sickness	case
13	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spells	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 child	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 child	det
20	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 did	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 good	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 did	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	the Viking woman	Runic characters and spells of sickness	against sorcery	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	throw	past	the Viking woman not said here	spells = spell	over the wretched child	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over child=Destination
3	do	past	spells = spell	no good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	spell			sickness		nom spell «state 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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