Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 65
In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark.
Who acts: hands · What happens: immure, tie · To what, where: young Christian priest, deep stony cellars
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 (hands), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 cellars | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cellars | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cellars | amod |
| 4 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cellars | amod |
| 5 | cellars | cellar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 immured | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cellars | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cellars | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 priest | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 priest | amod |
| 12 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 priest | amod |
| 13 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 immured | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 immured | aux:pass |
| 15 | immured | immure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tied | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tied | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feet | cc |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hands | conj |
| 22 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 immured | conj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 tied | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 strips | case |
| 25 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tied | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bark | case |
| 27 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strips | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 immured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | immure | past · passive | the young Christian priest | the deep stony cellars of the castle | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle | fragrance's hands and feet | with strips of bark; together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with strip=Co-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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