Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 46

Then Helga seemed suddenly to awake from her long, deep reverie; she threw herself hastily upon the dying animal.

Who acts: Helga, animal · What happens: seem, awake, throw, die · To what, where: long deep reverie, 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 (Helga, animal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seemed	advmod
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 seemed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 awake	mark
6	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	12 reverie	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 reverie	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reverie	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reverie	amod
12	reverie	reverie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awake	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 threw	obj
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	15 threw	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 animal	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 animal	det
20	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 animal	amod
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Helga			then	suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	awake	to-infinitive	Helga not said here		animal's long deep reverie			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	past	animal	animal			upon the dying animal; hastily property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon animal=Destination
4	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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