Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 87

Then she took a step forward and listened; then stepped again forward, and seized with her clumsy hands the heavy bar which was laid across the door.

Who acts: Helga · What happens: take, listen, step, seize, lay · To what, where: step, heavy bar, door

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listened	cc
8	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 stepped	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stepped	advmod
11	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 stepped	advmod
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 stepped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seized	cc
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stepped	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seized	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bar	det
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bar	amod
23	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seized	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 laid	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laid	aux:pass
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bar	acl:relcl
27	across	across	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Helga	a step		then	forward property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	listen	past	Helga not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	step	past				then; again	forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seize	past		the heavy bar			with Helga's clumsy hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
5	lay	past · passive		the heavy bar	the door			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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