Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 32
Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat there like a somnambulist--as one who walked in his sleep.
Who acts: evil, Helga · What happens: allow, lift, sit, walk, sleep · To what, where: evil, sleep
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 (evil, Helga), 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 | Patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 3 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 allowed | nsubj |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 allowed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lifted | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lifted | aux:pass |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sat | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 somnambulist | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 somnambulist | det |
| 17 | somnambulist | somnambulist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sat | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sleep | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | evil | evil | patiently property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | lift not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | evil not said here | on the horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | evil not said here | there | like a somnambulist; as one | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | walk | past | Helga's sleep | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | sleep | Helga | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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