Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 51
Then the robbers knew that this must be the work of an evil spirit or some secret sorcery, and, in a terrible fright, they ran hastily from the spot.
Who acts: robbers, this · What happens: know, be, run · To what, where: work, terrible fright · Speech: someone speaks here
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, this), 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 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 work | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 work | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 13 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | compound |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 sorcery | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 sorcery | det |
| 17 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sorcery | amod |
| 18 | sorcery | sorcery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ran | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fright | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fright | det |
| 24 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fright | amod |
| 25 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fright | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 29 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 28 ran | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 spot | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spot | det |
| 32 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the robbers | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | this | the work | of a evil spirit or some secret sorcery | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past | robbers = robber | a terrible fright | from the spot; hastily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory |
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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