Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 69

But the Viking would not allow him to die such a death as that, especially as he was the disowned and despiser of the high gods.

Who acts: Viking · What happens: not allow, die, disown · To what, where: Hurrah, death

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 allow	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Viking	det
3	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 allow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allow	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allow	advmod
6	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allow	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allow	xcomp
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 death	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 die	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disowned	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 disowned	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 disowned	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 disowned	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disowned	aux:pass
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 disowned	det
21	disowned	disown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 allow	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 despiser	cc
23	despiser	despiser	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disowned	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 gods	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gods	det
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gods	amod
27	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 despiser	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not allow	would	the Viking		Hurrah		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Viking not said here	such death		as that	tree rules
3	disown	past · passive		Hurrah		especially property	tree rules

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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