Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 1
Then he lifted her on the horse and gave her a golden censer, similar to those she had already seen at the Viking's house.
Who acts: he, horse · What happens: lift, give, see · To what, where: her, golden censer, horse, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 censer | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 censer | amod |
| 13 | censer | censer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 similar | punct |
| 15 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 censer | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 similar | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Viking | det |
| 24 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Viking | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | he | her = she | then | on the horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | a golden censer | horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient censer=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | horse | the Viking's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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