Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 62

The difficult task had employed her the whole night; and as the sun broke forth, there stood the beautiful Helga in all her loveliness, with her bleeding hands, and, for the first time, with tears on her maiden cheeks.

Who acts: sun · What happens: employ, break, stand · To what, where: difficult task, beautiful Helga, loveliness

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 (sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 task	det
2	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 task	amod
3	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employed	aux
5	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 employed	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 broke	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	nsubj
15	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stood	advcl
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 broke	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 stood	expl
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Helga	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Helga	amod
22	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 loveliness	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 loveliness	det:predet
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 loveliness	nmod:poss
26	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hands	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 hands	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
30	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hands	compound
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 time	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 time	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 time	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 time	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 time	det
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tears	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 tears	case
41	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 cheeks	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 cheeks	nmod:poss
44	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cheeks	amod
45	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tears	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · perfect · passive		the difficult task		night		tree rules
2	break	past	the sun				forth property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past		the beautiful Helga	animal's loveliness; there	time	with animal's bleeding hands; with tears on animal's maiden cheeks	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent helga=Theme in loveliness=Destination

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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