Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 83

Close by his side appeared the murdered Christian priest, more beautiful than Baldur, as the Viking's wife had said; but now he came as if in a flame of fire.

Who acts: wife, head, fire · What happens: appear, murder, say, come, flame · To what, where: murdered Christian priest · 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 (wife, head, fire), 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	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 appeared	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 side	nmod:poss
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 priest	det
7	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 priest	amod
8	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 priest	compound
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 appeared	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 Baldur	case
14	Baldur	Baldur	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 beautiful	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Viking	det
18	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wife	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Viking	case
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	aux
22	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 appeared	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 came	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 flame	case
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 flame	mark
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 flame	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 flame	det
32	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 fire	case
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flame	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past		the murdered Christian priest		by head's side; close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location priest=Theme
2	murder	participle					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Viking's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	head		now	as a flame of fire	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flame		fire				nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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