Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 21

She would not have blinked had he waved over her head a sharp knife or a glittering axe; but she shrunk from him as he signed her with the sign of the cross on her forehead and breast, and sat before him like a tame bird, with her head bowed down.

Who acts: man, action, head · What happens: not blink, have, wave, glitter, shrink, sign · To what, where: action, head, cross

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, action, head), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blinked	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blinked	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 blinked	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blinked	aux
5	blinked	blink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blinked	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waved	nsubj
8	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	ccomp
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knife	det
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knife	amod
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	appos
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 axe	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 axe	det
17	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 axe	amod
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knife	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 shrunk	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 shrunk	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shrunk	nsubj
22	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blinked	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shrunk	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 signed	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 signed	nsubj
27	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shrunk	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 signed	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 sign	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sign	det
31	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 signed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 cross	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cross	det
34	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sign	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 forehead	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 forehead	nmod:poss
37	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cross	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 breast	cc
39	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 forehead	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sat	cc
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shrunk	conj
43	before	before	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sat	obl
45	like	like	ADP	_	48 bird	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 bird	det
47	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 bird	amod
48	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bowed	punct
50	with	with	SCONJ	_	53 bowed	mark
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 head	nmod:poss
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bowed	nsubj
53	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sat	conj
54	down	down	ADV	_	53 bowed	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blinked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blink	would · perfect · passive		action					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	have	past							tree rules
3	wave	past	man			action's head			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
4	glitter	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shrink	past	action					from man	vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from he=Stimulus
6	sign	past	man		action			with the sign of the cross on action's forehead and breast	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with sign=Theme
7	sit	past	action not said here				before man	like a tame bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
8	bow down	past	action's head					down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sign			the cross on action's forehead and breast					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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