Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 66
The Viking's wife considered him as beautiful as Baldur, and his distress raised her pity; but Helga said he ought to have ropes fastened to his heels, and be tied to the tails of wild animals.
Who acts: wife, distress, Helga, priest · What happens: consider, raise, say, have, fasten, tie · To what, where: priest, pity, ropes · 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, distress, Helga, priest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Viking | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Viking | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 considered | nsubj |
| 5 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 considered | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 considered | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Baldur | case |
| 10 | Baldur | Baldur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beautiful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raised | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 raised | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 distress | nmod:poss |
| 14 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | nsubj |
| 15 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 considered | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pity | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 20 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 considered | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 23 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ropes | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 heels | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heels | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fastened | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tied | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tied | cc |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 tied | aux:pass |
| 34 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 considered | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 tails | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tails | det |
| 37 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tied | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 animals | case |
| 39 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 animals | amod |
| 40 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 tails | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the Viking's wife | priest | beautiful property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | raise | past | priest's distress | distress's pity | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Helga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | ought | priest | ropes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fasten | participle | ropes not said here | to priest's heels | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to heel=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | tie | infinitive · passive | the Viking's wife not said here | to the tails of wild animals | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to tail=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | distress | priest | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | pity | distress | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=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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