Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 36
The bubbling spring formed not a stream, but a marsh, round which also they were obliged to guide the horse; still there were strength and refreshment in the cool forest breeze, and no trifling power in the gentle words spoken in faith and Christian love by the young priest, whose inmost heart yearned to lead this poor lost one into the way of light and life.
Who acts: bubbling spring, marsh, trifling power, this · What happens: bubble, not form, oblige, guide, be, speak · To what, where: stream, round, horse, strength, cool forest breeze, gentle words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bubbling spring, marsh, trifling power, this), 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 spring | det |
| 2 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spring | amod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 formed | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 strength | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 strength | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 marsh | det |
| 11 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strength | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 round | punct |
| 13 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marsh | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 obliged | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 round | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 guide | mark |
| 20 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guide | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 were | punct |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 were | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 were | expl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 strength | cop |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 refreshment | cc |
| 29 | refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strength | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 breeze | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 breeze | det |
| 32 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 breeze | amod |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 breeze | compound |
| 34 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strength | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 yearned | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 yearned | cc |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 power | det |
| 38 | trifling | trifling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 power | compound |
| 39 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 yearned | nsubj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 words | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 words | det |
| 42 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 words | amod |
| 43 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 power | nmod |
| 44 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 words | acl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 faith | case |
| 46 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 love | cc |
| 48 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 love | amod |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 faith | conj |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 priest | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 priest | det |
| 52 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 priest | amod |
| 53 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 heart | punct |
| 55 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 57 heart | nmod:poss |
| 56 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 heart | amod |
| 57 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 priest | appos |
| 58 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 formed | conj |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 lead | mark |
| 60 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 yearned | xcomp |
| 61 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 63 lost | nsubj |
| 62 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 lost | nsubj |
| 63 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 lead | ccomp |
| 64 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 63 lost | obj |
| 65 | into | into | ADP | _ | 67 way | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 way | det |
| 67 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 lost | obl |
| 68 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 light | case |
| 69 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 way | nmod |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 life | cc |
| 71 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 light | conj |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 2 | not form | past | the bubbling spring | a stream | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | round | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | guide | to-infinitive | the horse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | a marsh and round | strength and refreshment | the cool forest breeze | tree rules | |||
| 6 | speak speech: other | participle | the gentle words not said here | faith and Christian love | by the young priest | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | yearn | past | no trifling power in the gentle words | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | lead not said to happen | to-infinitive | no trifling power in the gentle words not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 9 | lose | past | this | one | the way of light and life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/36/