Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 15
Close by rose a bubbling spring, and he sprinkled Helga's face and neck with the water, commanded the unclean spirit to come forth, and pronounced upon her a Christian blessing.
Who acts: oak · What happens: rise, bubble, sprinkle, command, come, pronounce · To what, where: face, unclean spirit, Christian blessing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 rose | mark |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spring | det |
| 5 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 spring | amod |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprinkled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprinkled | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 10 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 11 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Helga | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprinkled | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 neck | cc |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprinkled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 commanded | punct |
| 20 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spirit | det |
| 22 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spirit | amod |
| 23 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commanded | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 commanded | advcl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pronounced | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pronounced | cc |
| 29 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pronounced | obl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 blessing | det |
| 33 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 blessing | amod |
| 34 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pronounced | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | spring | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | oak | Helga's face and neck | with the water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 4 | command | past | the unclean spirit | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pronounce | past | a Christian blessing | upon garment | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=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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