Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 71
For the first time, a man was to be sacrificed here.
What happens: sacrifice · To what, where: man
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sacrificed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sacrificed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 11 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sacrificed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | past · passive | a man | here | time | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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