Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 85
Beautiful Helga trembled at the look, and her memory returned with a power as if it had been the day of judgment.
Who acts: Beautiful Helga, memory · What happens: tremble, return, be · To what, where: look
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 (Beautiful Helga, memory), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Helga | amod |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 look | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 memory | nmod:poss |
| 10 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 power | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 day | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 day | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 day | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 day | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 judgment | case |
| 23 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Beautiful Helga | the look | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at look=Location | ||||
| 2 | return | past | recollection's memory | with a power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | memory | as the day | of judgment | tree rules |
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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