Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 58

Often lately there had been, both in hall and chamber, a talk of the new faith which was spreading far and wide in the south, and which, through the means of the holy Ansgarius, had already reached as far as Hedeby on the Schlei.

Who acts: talk, new faith · What happens: spread, be, reach, talk · To what, where: south, holy Ansgarius, Schlei

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 (talk, new faith), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	5 been	advmod
2	lately	lately	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 been	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 means	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hall	punct
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	9 hall	cc:preconj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chamber	cc
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 talk	det
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 faith	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 faith	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 faith	amod
18	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talk	nmod
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spreading	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spreading	aux
21	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 talk	acl
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 spreading	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wide	cc
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spreading	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 south	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 south	det
27	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spreading	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 means	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 means	cc
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 means	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 which	punct
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 means	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 Ansgarius	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Ansgarius	det
37	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Ansgarius	amod
38	Ansgarius	Ansgarius	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 means	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 reached	punct
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 reached	aux
41	already	already	ADV	_	42 reached	advmod
42	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 Ansgarius	acl
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 far	advmod
44	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 reached	advmod
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 Hedeby	case
46	Hedeby	Hedeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 reached	obl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 Schlei	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Schlei	det
49	Schlei	Schlei	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 reached	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past · progressive	a talk of the new faith		the south	far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location
2	is	participle				of the holy Ansgarius; mean property	tree rules
3	reach	past · perfect		the holy Ansgarius not said here	the Schlei	as Hedeby; far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk		the new faith				nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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