Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 72
Helga begged to be allowed to sprinkle the assembled people with the blood of the priest.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: beg, allow, sprinkle, assemble · To what, where: assembled people · 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 (Helga), 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 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 allowed | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 begged | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sprinkle | mark |
| 7 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sprinkle | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blood | det |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 priest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 priest | det |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blood | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Helga | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | sprinkle not said to happen | to-infinitive | the assembled people | with the blood of the priest | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Destination with blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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