Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 14
He held her fast, and the old oak under which they stood seemed to help him, for the loosened roots on the ground became entangled in the maiden's feet, and held them fast.
Who acts: Helga, ashes, old oak · What happens: hold, stand, seem, help, loosen, entangle · To what, where: garment, old oak, oak, loosened roots, ashes
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 (Helga, ashes, old oak), 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 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 held | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oak | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oak | amod |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 oak | acl:relcl |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 roots | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 roots | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roots | det |
| 21 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 roots | amod |
| 22 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 entangled | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roots | nmod |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 entangled | aux:pass |
| 27 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 maiden | case |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 entangled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 held | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 held | cc |
| 35 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 held | obj |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 held | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Helga | garment | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | ashes = ash | the old oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the old oak | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the old oak not said here | oak | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | loosen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | entangle | past · passive | the loosened roots on the ground | in the maiden's feet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in foot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hold | past | Helga not said here | ashes = ash | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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