Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 93
I cannot lead thee to Hedeby that thou mayst receive Christian baptism, for first thou must remove the thick veil with which the waters of the moorland are shrouded, and bring forth from its depths the living author of thy being and thy life.
Who acts: I, that, thou · What happens: not lead, receive, remove, shroud, bring, be · To what, where: thee, Hedeby, Christian baptism, thick veil, waters, living author
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 (I, that, thou), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lead | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lead | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lead | advmod |
| 4 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 lead | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Hedeby | case |
| 7 | Hedeby | Hedeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lead | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 receive | nsubj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 receive | nsubj |
| 10 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 receive | aux |
| 11 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lead | parataxis |
| 12 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baptism | amod |
| 13 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 receive | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remove | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 remove | mark |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 remove | advmod |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 remove | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 remove | aux |
| 19 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lead | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 veil | det |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 veil | amod |
| 22 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remove | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 shrouded | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 waters | det |
| 26 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shrouded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 moorland | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moorland | det |
| 29 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waters | nmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 shrouded | aux:pass |
| 31 | shrouded | shroud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 veil | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bring | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bring | cc |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 remove | conj |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 bring | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 depths | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 depths | nmod:poss |
| 38 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bring | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 author | det |
| 40 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 author | amod |
| 41 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 life | case |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 life | nmod:poss |
| 44 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 life | cop |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 life | cc |
| 46 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 life | nmod:poss |
| 47 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 author | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lead | can | I | thee | Hedeby | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to hedeby=Destination | |||
| 2 | receive | may | that | Christian baptism | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baptism=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remove | must | thou | the thick veil | first property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||
| 4 | shroud | present · passive | the waters of the moorland | with the thick veil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | thou not said here | the living author | water's depths | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent author=Theme from depth=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | is | gerund | of thy life | 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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