Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 61
Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid them over the dead body, filling up the crevices with moss, till she thought she had fenced in his resting-place strongly enough.
Who acts: animal · What happens: bring, carry, lay, fill up, think, fence · To what, where: heaviest stones, leaves, dead body, crevices, resting place · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stones | det |
| 5 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 stones | amod |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 body | amod |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filling | punct |
| 20 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 laid | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 filling | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crevices | det |
| 23 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 filling | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 moss | case |
| 25 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filling | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 thought | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laid | conj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fenced | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fenced | aux |
| 32 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 35 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 place | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 resting | punct |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fenced | obl |
| 38 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 39 enough | advmod |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 32 fenced | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | animal | the heaviest stones | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | could | animal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | animal not said here | leaves = leaf | the dead body | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over body=Destination | |||
| 4 | fill up | gerund | animal not said here | the crevices | with moss | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crevice=Patient with moss=Instrument | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | animal | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fence | past · perfect | animal | skin's resting place | enough property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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