Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 17

And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere strength of a man opposed itself, through his means, against the evil which struggled within her.

Who acts: man, evil · What happens: show, oppose, mean, struggle · To what, where: power, evil

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 (man, evil), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 shown	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 here	advmod
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 here	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shown	advmod
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 power	nmod:poss
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shown	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shown	aux:pass
8	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 something	punct
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 shown	obj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 something	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 strength	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 strength	det
14	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strength	amod
15	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 more	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opposed	nsubj
19	opposed	oppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strength	acl:relcl
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 opposed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 means	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 means	nmod:poss
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shown	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 evil	punct
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 evil	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 evil	det
28	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 struggled	nsubj
30	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 evil	acl:relcl
31	within	within	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 struggled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past · passive		water's power	here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient something=Topic
2	oppose	past	a man	power			vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	mean	present		the evil			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Topic
4	struggle	past	the evil			within garment	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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