Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 23

He would take her to Hedeby to St. Ansgarius, and there, in that Christian town, the spell of the sorcerer would be removed.

Who acts: man, Christian town · What happens: take, remove, spell · To what, where: action, Hedeby, spell, sorcerer

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, Christian town), 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	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Hedeby	case
6	Hedeby	Hedeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 St.	case
8	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
9	Ansgarius	Ansgarius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 St.	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 there	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 take	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 town	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 town	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 town	det
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 town	amod
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spell	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spell	det
20	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 removed	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sorcerer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sorcerer	det
23	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spell	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 removed	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 removed	aux:pass
26	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 town	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	would	man	action	Hedeby	to St.	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to hedeby=Destination
2	remove	would · passive	that Christian town not said here	the spell of the sorcerer			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	spell			the sorcerer			nom spell «state 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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