Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 45
One of the robbers raised his axe against him; but the young priest sprang on one side, and avoided the blow, which fell with great force on the horse's neck, so that the blood gushed forth, and the animal sunk to the ground.
Who acts: One, young priest, blow, blood · What happens: raise, spring, avoid, fall, gush, sink · To what, where: axe, one side, blow, neck, animal
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 (One, young priest, blow, blood), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 robbers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 raised | obl |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raised | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 avoided | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 avoided | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 avoided | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 priest | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprang | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 avoided | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 avoided | cc |
| 21 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blow | det |
| 23 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 avoided | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 blow | acl:relcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 force | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 force | amod |
| 29 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 neck | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 neck | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 34 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gushed | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 40 gushed | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 blood | det |
| 39 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gushed | nsubj |
| 40 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 avoided | parataxis |
| 41 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 40 gushed | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sunk | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 sunk | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 animal | det |
| 45 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 gushed | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 ground | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ground | det |
| 49 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sunk | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | One | priest's axe | of the robbers; against priest | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent axe=Theme of robber=Destination against he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | spring | gerund | the young priest not said here | one side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | avoid | past | the young priest | the blow | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent blow=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the blow | the horse's neck | with great force | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | |||
| 5 | gush | participle | the blood | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sink | participle · passive | the animal | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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