Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 93

She drew her knife, cut through the bonds which confined his hands and feet, and beckoned to him to follow her.

Who acts: Helga, bonds · What happens: draw, cut, confine, beckon, follow · To what, where: knife, hands, handsomest, Helga

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, bonds), 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 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knife	nmod:poss
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 bonds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bonds	det
9	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 confined	nsubj
11	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bonds	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 confined	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 feet	cc
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beckoned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beckoned	cc
18	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beckoned	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 follow	mark
22	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beckoned	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 follow	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Helga	Helga's knife			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	cut	participle	Helga not said here			through the bonds	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through bond=Patient
3	confine	past	the bonds	handsomest's hands and feet			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	beckon	participle	Helga not said here		handsomest = handsome		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	follow	to-infinitive	Helga not said here	Helga			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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