Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 47

The priest placed himself before her, to defend and shelter her; but one of the robbers swung his iron axe against the Christian's head with such force that it was dashed to pieces, the blood and brains were scattered about, and he fell dead upon the ground.

Who acts: priest, one, pieces · What happens: place, defend, shelter, swing, dash, scatter · To what, where: priest, animal, iron axe, head, axe, brains

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, one, pieces), 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 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 placed	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 defend	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 defend	mark
9	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shelter	cc
11	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 defend	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shelter	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 swung	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 swung	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 swung	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 robbers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 robbers	det
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 axe	nmod:poss
21	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 axe	amod
22	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swung	obj
23	against	against	ADP	_	27 head	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Christian	det
25	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 head	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Christian	case
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swung	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 force	case
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 force	amod
30	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swung	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 dashed	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dashed	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dashed	aux:pass
34	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 swung	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 pieces	case
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dashed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 blood	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 blood	det
39	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pieces	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 brains	cc
41	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 scattered	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 scattered	aux:pass
43	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 pieces	acl:relcl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 scattered	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fell	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fell	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fell	nsubj
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
49	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fell	xcomp
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 ground	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ground	det
52	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fell	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	the priest	priest		before animal		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before she=Destination
2	defend	to-infinitive	the priest not said here					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	shelter	infinitive	the priest not said here	animal				vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	swing	past	one of the robbers	priest's iron axe	the Christian's head		with such force	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme against head=Location
5	dash	past · passive		axe			to pieces and the blood result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result
6	scatter	past · passive	pieces and the blood not said here	brains			about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
7	fall	past	priest		the ground		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=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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