Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 57
Soon wild animals would come and tear their dead bodies; but no, that must not happen.
Who acts: wild animals, that · What happens: come, tear, not happen · To what, where: dead bodies
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 (wild animals, that), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tear | cc |
| 7 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bodies | amod |
| 10 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tear | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 happen | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 happen | cc |
| 13 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 happen | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happen | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happen | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 happen | advmod |
| 18 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | wild animals | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | infinitive | wild animals not said here | hands's dead bodies | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not happen | must | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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