Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 97
He mounted upon it, and she sprang up also before him, and held tightly by the animal's mane.
Who acts: handsomest, figure · What happens: mount, spring up, hold · To what, where: gallery
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 (handsomest, figure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sprang | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sprang | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mounted | conj |
| 16 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 mane | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animal | det |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mane | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 animal | case |
| 21 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | handsomest = handsome | gallery | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | figure | before handsomest = handsome | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | handsomest = handsome not said here | by the animal's mane; tightly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mane=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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