Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 98

The prisoner understood her, and they rode on at a rapid trot, by a road which he would never have found by himself, across the open heath.

Who acts: prisoner, prisoners, handsomest · What happens: understand, ride on, not find · To what, where: figure, rapid trot, road

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 (prisoner, prisoners, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prisoner	det
2	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understood	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rode	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rode	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rode	nsubj
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 rode	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 trot	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trot	det
12	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trot	amod
13	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 road	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 found	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 found	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 road	acl:relcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 himself	case
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heath	punct
27	across	across	ADP	_	30 heath	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heath	det
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heath	amod
30	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the prisoner	figure			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	ride on	past	prisoners = prisoner		a rapid trot	by a road; across the open heath	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across heath=Trajectory
3	not find	would · perfect	handsomest = handsome	a road		by handsomest = handsome	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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