Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 75

A sudden thought came to Helga, and she lifted up the cross and planted it upon the grave, between the stones that covered him and the dead horse.

Who acts: sudden thought, flock, stones · What happens: come, lift up, plant, cover · To what, where: Helga, cross, grave

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 (sudden thought, flock, stones), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thought	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	amod
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Helga	case
6	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	nsubj
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cross	det
13	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 planted	cc
15	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lifted	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 planted	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 grave	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grave	det
19	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 planted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stones	punct
21	between	between	ADP	_	23 stones	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stones	det
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 planted	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 covered	nsubj
25	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stones	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 covered	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 horse	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 horse	amod
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stones	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a sudden thought			Helga		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to helga=Initial_Location
2	lift up	past	flock	the cross				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
3	plant	past	flock not said here	cross		the grave	between the stones and the dead horse	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon grave=Destination
4	cover	past	the stones and the dead horse		Helga			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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