Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 33

The Christian bound two branches together with bark, in the form of a cross, and held it on high as they rode through the forest.

Who acts: Christian bound, bound · What happens: hold, rode, form · To what, where: cross, high, forest

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 (Christian bound, bound), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bound	det
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bound	amod
3	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	nsubj
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 branches	nummod
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bound	conj
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 branches	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 bark	case
8	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bound	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 form	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 form	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 form	det
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bound	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cross	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cross	det
15	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 form	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 held	cc
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 high	case
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 held	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 rode	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rode	nsubj
24	rode	rode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 held	advcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	past	the Christian bound with bark and two branches	cross	high	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on high=Location
2	rode	present	bound		the forest	tree rules
3	form			a cross		nom form «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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