Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 35

Bushes of the wild sloe here and there blocked up the path, so that they had to ride over them.

Who acts: bushes · What happens: block up, have, ride · To what, where: path

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 (bushes), 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	Bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 here	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sloe	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sloe	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sloe	amod
5	sloe	sloe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bushes	nmod
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blocked	cc
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blocked	advmod
9	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 here	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 blocked	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blocked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 had	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blocked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ride	mark
19	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ride	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	block up	participle		the path	there		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Theme
2	have	past	bushes = bush				tree rules
3	ride	to-infinitive	bushes = bush not said here			over bushes = bush	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Trajectory

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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