Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 123

They threw off their soft white plumage, and two lovely female forms approached the pale, sick old man, and threw back their long hair, and when Helga bent over her grandfather, redness came back to his cheeks, his eyes brightened, and life returned to his benumbed limbs.

Who acts: Relatives, two lovely female forms, Helga, redness, life · What happens: throw off, approach, throw back, bend, come back, brighten · To what, where: soft white plumage, pale sick old man, long hair, cheeks, eyes

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 (Relatives, two lovely female forms, Helga, redness), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plumage	nmod:poss
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plumage	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plumage	amod
7	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 approached	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 approached	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 forms	nummod
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forms	amod
12	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forms	amod
13	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 approached	nsubj
14	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
16	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pale	punct
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 bent	mark
31	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 bent	nsubj
32	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 grandfather	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grandfather	nmod:poss
35	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bent	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bent	punct
37	redness	redness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 cheeks	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cheeks	nmod:poss
42	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 came	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 eyes	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cheeks	conj
46	brightened	brighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 eyes	acl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 returned	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 returned	cc
49	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 returned	nsubj
50	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 limbs	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 limbs	nmod:poss
53	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 limbs	amod
54	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 returned	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw off	past	Relatives = relative	Relatives's soft white plumage			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme
2	approach	past	two lovely female forms	the pale sick old man			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	throw back	past	Relatives = relative not said here	Relatives's long hair			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	bend	past	Helga			over Helga's grandfather	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over grandfather=Location
5	come back	past	redness		redness's cheeks and redness's eyes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cheek=Initial_Location
6	brighten	participle		redness's eyes not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	return	past	life			to redness's benumbed limbs result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to limb=Result
8	benumb	participle					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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