Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 63
Some vessels, curiously formed of massive gold, had been brought home among the booty.
What happens: form, bring · To what, where: vessels
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 vessels | det |
| 2 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 formed | punct |
| 4 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 5 formed | advmod |
| 5 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vessels | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 formed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 vessels | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 brought | aux:pass |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 booty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 booty | det |
| 16 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | participle | some vessels not said here | of massive gold; curiously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | some vessels | among the booty; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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