Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 24

But he would not let her sit before him on the horse, though of her own free will she wished to do so. "

Who acts: man, action · What happens: not let, sit, wish, do · To what, where: action

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sit	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 free	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 free	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 though	fixed
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 free	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 free	amod
18	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sit	parataxis
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wished	aux
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 free	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	man	action			tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	action not said here		before man	on the horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	wish	future	action				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	action not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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