Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 88

Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently lifted the latch, and then took up the glimmering lamp which stood in the ante-chamber of the hall.

Who acts: Helga, glimmering lamp · What happens: push back, lift, take up, stand · To what, where: bar, latch, glimmering lamp, ante chamber

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, glimmering lamp), 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	Gently	gently	ADV	_	9 pushed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pushed	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pushed	cc
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trouble	amod
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trouble	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushed	nsubj
9	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 pushed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bar	det
12	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lifted	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 lifted	mark
15	silently	silently	ADV	_	16 lifted	advmod
16	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pushed	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 latch	det
18	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lifted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 took	advmod
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pushed	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 took	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lamp	det
25	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lamp	compound
26	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lamp	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 chamber	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chamber	det
31	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chamber	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ante	punct
33	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 hall	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hall	det
36	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chamber	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	past	Helga	the bar			with much trouble; gently property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
2	lift	past	Helga not said here	the latch			silently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Theme
3	take up	past	Helga not said here	the glimmering lamp		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
4	stand	past	the glimmering lamp		the ante chamber of the hall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location

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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