Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 6

He imagined that some new sorcery was at work.

Who acts: Helga, new sorcery · What happens: imagine, be · To what, where: work

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 (Helga, new sorcery), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 imagined	nsubj
2	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 work	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sorcery	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sorcery	amod
6	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 work	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagined	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	past	Helga						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	some new sorcery			work			tree rules

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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