Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 59

She had nothing but a branch of a tree and her two hands, between the fingers of which the webbed skin stretched, and they were torn by the work, while the blood ran down her hands.

Who acts: animal, work, blood · What happens: have, web, stretch, tear, run down · To what, where: nothing, webbed skin, hands

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 (animal, work, blood), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 branch	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 branch	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hands	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hands	nummod
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fingers	punct
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 fingers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fingers	det
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 stretched	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 skin	det
21	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 skin	amod
22	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretched	nsubj:pass
23	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fingers	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 torn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 torn	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 torn	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 torn	aux:pass
28	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 work	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 work	det
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 torn	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ran	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 ran	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blood	det
35	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ran	nsubj
36	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 ran	compound:prt
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ran	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	animal	nothing	between the fingers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	web	participle				tree rules
3	stretch	participle · passive		the webbed skin	of the fingers	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	tear	past · passive	the work	hands = hand		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
5	run down	past	the blood	animal's hands		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=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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