Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 55

She threw herself first upon one, and then upon the other; brought water in her hand, which, from being webbed, was large and hollow, and poured it over them; but they were dead, and dead they would remain.

Who acts: moon, hands · What happens: throw, bring, web, be, pour, remain · To what, where: moon, hand, water

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 (moon, hands), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 threw	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 other	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 other	advmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
14	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 webbed	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 webbed	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 webbed	punct
22	from	from	SCONJ	_	24 webbed	mark
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 webbed	aux:pass
24	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hand	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 large	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 large	cop
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hollow	cc
29	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 large	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 poured	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 poured	cc
32	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 poured	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 poured	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 dead	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dead	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dead	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dead	cc
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dead	conj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 remain	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 remain	aux
46	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threw	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	moon	moon	moon's hand	upon one; first property	tree rules
2	bring	participle					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	web	gerund · passive		moon's hand			tree rules
4	is	past	moon not said here			large property	tree rules
5	be		moon not said here				tree rules
6	pour	past		water		over hands = hand	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	is	past	hands = hand			dead property	tree rules
8	be		hands = hand not said here				tree rules
9	remain	would	hands = hand				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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