Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 31

Meanwhile, the horse that had carried them in wild career stood quietly by, plucking at the tall bramble-bushes, till the ripe young berries fell down upon Helga's hands, as if inviting her to eat.

Who acts: horse, ripe young berries, evil · What happens: carry, stand, pluck, fall down, invite, eat · To what, where: horse, wild career, tall bramble bushes, hands, 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 (horse, ripe young berries, 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 carried	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	aux
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 horse	acl:relcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 career	case
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 career	amod
11	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 plucking	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plucking	punct
16	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stood	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	22 bushes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bushes	det
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bushes	amod
20	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bushes	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 bramble	punct
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 plucking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 fell	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 berries	det
26	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 berries	amod
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 berries	amod
28	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 fell	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 hands	case
32	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hands	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Helga	case
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 inviting	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 inviting	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 inviting	mark
38	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 fell	advcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 inviting	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 inviting	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		the horse	wild career		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value
2	stand	past	the horse			meanwhile, quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pluck	gerund	the horse not said here		the tall bramble bushes		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at bush=Source
4	fall down	past	the ripe young berries		Helga's hands	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon hand=Location
5	invite	gerund	the ripe young berries not said here	evil			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	evil not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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