Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 60

She saw at last that her work would be useless, more than she could accomplish; so she fetched more water, and washed the face of the dead, and then covered it with fresh green leaves; she also brought large boughs and spread over him, and scattered dried leaves between the branches.

Who acts: animal, work · What happens: see, be, accomplish, fetch, wash, cover · To what, where: more water, face, work, large boughs, dried leaves, branches

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), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 useless	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 work	nmod:poss
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 useless	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 useless	cop
10	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 last	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 useless	conj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 accomplish	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 accomplish	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 accomplish	aux
16	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 more	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fetched	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 fetched	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fetched	nsubj
20	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetched	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 washed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 washed	cc
25	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 face	det
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 washed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dead	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dead	det
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 face	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 covered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 covered	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 covered	advmod
34	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 covered	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 leaves	case
37	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 leaves	amod
38	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 leaves	amod
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 covered	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 brought	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 brought	nsubj
42	also	also	ADV	_	43 brought	advmod
43	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
44	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 boughs	amod
45	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 brought	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 spread	cc
47	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 brought	conj
48	over	over	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 spread	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 scattered	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 scattered	cc
52	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
53	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 leaves	amod
54	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 scattered	obj
55	between	between	ADP	_	57 branches	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 branches	det
57	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 scattered	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	animal				last property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	animal's work				useless property	tree rules
3	be		animal's work not said here					tree rules
4	accomplish	could	animal					vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	fetch	past	animal	more water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	wash	past	animal not said here	the face of the dead				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
7	cover	past	animal not said here	work		then	with fresh green leaves	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with leaf=Theme
8	bring	past	animal	large boughs				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bough=Theme
9	spread	past	animal not said here				over skin	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location
10	scatter	past	animal not said here	dried leaves	the branches			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme between branch=Destination
11	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
12	work		animal					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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