Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 4
He held now a beautiful young woman in his arms, and he was horrified at the sight.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: hold, horrify · To what, where: beautiful young woman, arms, Helga, sight
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 held | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 woman | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 horrified | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horrified | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 horrified | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 horrified | aux:pass |
| 15 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 held | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horrified | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Helga | a beautiful young woman | Helga's arms | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in arm=Location | ||
| 2 | horrify | past · passive | Helga | the sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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