Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 92
She touched him with her cold, moist hand, and as he awoke and caught sight of the hideous form, he shuddered as if he beheld a wicked apparition.
Who acts: Helga, handsomest · What happens: touch, awake, catch, shudder, behold, sight · To what, where: handsomest, sight, wicked apparition, hideous form
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, handsomest), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touched | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 8 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shuddered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shuddered | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 awoke | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 awoke | nsubj |
| 14 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shuddered | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awoke | conj |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 form | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 form | det |
| 20 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 form | amod |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awoke | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shuddered | nsubj |
| 24 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 touched | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 beheld | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 beheld | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 beheld | nsubj |
| 28 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shuddered | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 apparition | det |
| 30 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 apparition | amod |
| 31 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beheld | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Helga | handsomest = handsome | with Helga's cold moist hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | awake | past | handsomest = handsome | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | handsomest = handsome not said here | sight of the hideous form | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shudder | past | handsomest = handsome | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | behold | past | handsomest = handsome | a wicked apparition | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apparition=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sight | the hideous form | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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