Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 48
Then the robbers seized beautiful Helga by her white arms and slender waist; but at that moment the sun went down, and as its last ray disappeared, she was changed into the form of a frog.
Who acts: robbers, sun, last ray · What happens: seize, go down, disappear, change, ray, form · To what, where: beautiful Helga, animal, form, frog
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 (robbers, sun, last ray), 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 | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Helga | amod |
| 6 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arms | amod |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waist | cc |
| 12 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 waist | amod |
| 13 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arms | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 changed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 changed | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 disappeared | mark |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ray | nmod:poss |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ray | amod |
| 28 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disappeared | nsubj |
| 29 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 changed | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 disappeared | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 changed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 changed | aux:pass |
| 33 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seized | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 form | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 form | det |
| 36 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 changed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 frog | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 frog | det |
| 39 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 form | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the robbers | beautiful Helga | then | by animal's white arms and slender waist | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helga=Theme | ||
| 2 | go down | past | the sun | moment | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | sun's last ray | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | change | past · passive | animal | into the form of a frog result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into form=Result | ||||
| 5 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | form | a frog | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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