Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 74

The Viking's wife looked at the wild, badly disposed girl, with great sorrow; and when night came on, and her daughter's beautiful form and disposition were changed, she spoke in eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief that was in her heart.

Who acts: wife, night, deep grief, daughter · What happens: look, dispose, come on, change, speak, be · To what, where: girl, beautiful form, eloquent words, heart, sorrow · 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, night, deep grief, daughter), 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 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wild	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disposed	punct
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 disposed	advmod
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looked	conj
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disposed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sorrow	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sorrow	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sorrow	amod
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disposed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 spoke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 spoke	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 spoke	advcl
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 changed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 changed	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 form	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 daughter	case
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 form	amod
29	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 changed	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disposition	cc
31	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 form	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 changed	aux:pass
33	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 came	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spoke	nsubj
36	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 words	case
38	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 words	amod
39	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 spoke	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 Helga	case
41	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 words	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 sorrow	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sorrow	det
44	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 words	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 grief	cc
46	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 grief	amod
47	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sorrow	conj
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 heart	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 heart	cop
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 heart	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 heart	nmod:poss
52	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grief	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Viking's wife			at the wild	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wild=Theme
2	dispose	participle	the Viking's wife not said here	girl		with great sorrow; badly property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	come on	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	change	past · passive		Viking's daughter's beautiful form and disposition			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	speak speech: other	past	wife		eloquent words to Helga of the sorrow and deep grief		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	deep grief		Helga's heart		tree rules
7	form		Viking's daughter				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	word			the sorrow and deep grief		to Helga	nom word «communication transitive»: to=obl of=patient

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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