Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 87
She understood now that love had kept her here during the day of her trial; while the creature formed of dust and clay, soul and spirit, had wrestled and struggled with evil.
Who acts: recollection, creature · What happens: understand, keep, form, wrestle, struggle, try · To what, where: love · 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 (recollection, creature), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 kept | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 love | det |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 understood | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kept | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 kept | advmod |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trial | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trial | nmod:poss |
| 15 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 formed | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 formed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 creature | det |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 formed | nsubj |
| 20 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 understood | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dust | case |
| 22 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 formed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clay | cc |
| 24 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dust | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 soul | punct |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dust | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spirit | cc |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soul | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wrestled | punct |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wrestled | aux |
| 31 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 formed | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 struggled | cc |
| 33 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 wrestled | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 evil | case |
| 35 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 struggled | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | recollection | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect · passive | that love | here | now; day | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute | |||
| 3 | form | past | the creature | of dust soul and spirit and clay | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wrestle | past · perfect | the creature not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | struggle | participle | the creature not said here | with evil | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with evil=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | try | recollection | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=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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