Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 44

The priest had nothing to defend himself with, but the knife he had taken from Helga, and with this he struck out right and left.

Who acts: priest · What happens: have, defend, take, strike out, leave · To what, where: nothing, priest, knife, Helga

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 (priest), 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	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 defend	mark
6	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 defend	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	6 defend	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 taken	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knife	det
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Helga	case
17	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 struck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 struck	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 struck	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 struck	nsubj
23	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 struck	advmod
25	right	right	ADV	_	23 struck	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 struck	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the priest	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	defend	to-infinitive	the priest not said here	priest			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
3	take	past · perfect · passive		the knife	Helga		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from helga=Initial_Location
4	strike out	past	priest			with this; out, right property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with this=Theme
5	leave	past	priest not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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