Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 43

"Where hast thou stolen that beauteous maiden?" cried the robbers, seizing the horse by the bridle, and dragging the two riders from its back.

Who acts: thou, robbers · What happens: have, steal, cry, seize, drag · To what, where: horse, two riders, back · 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 (thou, robbers), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hast	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 hast	advmod
3	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 stolen	nsubj
5	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hast	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 cried	mark
7	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maiden	amod
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 maiden	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 maiden	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stolen	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 robbers	det
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seizing	punct
15	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seizing	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 bridle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridle	det
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seizing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dragging	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dragging	cc
23	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hast	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 riders	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 riders	nummod
26	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dragging	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dragging	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present					tree rules
2	steal in a quote	participle	thou				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the robbers				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seize	gerund	the robbers not said here	the horse		by the bridle	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	drag	gerund		the two riders	maiden's back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rider=Theme from back=Initial_Location

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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