Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 13
They struggled with each other in heavy combat, but it was as if an invisible power had been given to the Christian in the struggle.
Who acts: ashes · What happens: struggle, give · To what, where: heavy combat, combat, Christian, struggle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ashes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struggled | nsubj |
| 2 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 struggled | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 combat | case |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 combat | amod |
| 8 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struggled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 given | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 given | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 given | mark |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 power | det |
| 16 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 given | aux:pass |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 struggled | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Christian | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Christian | det |
| 23 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 struggle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 struggle | det |
| 26 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | ashes = ash | heavy combat | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | combat | the Christian | the struggle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to christian=Recipient |
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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