Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 70
In a few days, he had decided to have him offered as a sacrifice on the blood-stone in the grove.
Who acts: Hurrah · What happens: decide, have, offer · To what, where: Hurrah
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 (Hurrah), 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 | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 decided | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 decided | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 decided | aux |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decided | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 have | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 sacrifice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sacrifice | det |
| 15 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 stone | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stone | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 blood | punct |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sacrifice | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 grove | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grove | det |
| 23 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stone | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect | Hurrah | day | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hurrah not said here | Hurrah | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | participle | Hurrah not said here | as a sacrifice on the blood stone in the grove | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent as sacrifice=Attribute |
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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