Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 15

The dead Christian priest desired that the sleeping woman should be lifted on the horse, but the horse sank beneath the load, as if he had been a funeral pall fluttering in the wind.

Who acts: dead Christian priest, horse, King, funeral pall · What happens: desire, lift, sink, be, flutter · To what, where: sleeping woman, funeral pall, wind

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 (dead Christian priest, horse, King, funeral pall), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 priest	amod
3	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 priest	compound
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desired	nsubj
5	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lifted	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	compound
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lifted	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lifted	aux:pass
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 desired	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sank	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sank	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sank	nsubj
20	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 desired	advcl
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 load	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 load	det
23	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sank	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pall	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 pall	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 pall	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pall	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pall	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 pall	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pall	det
31	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pall	compound
32	pall	pall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sank	obl
33	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 pall	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 wind	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wind	det
36	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fluttering	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	past	the dead Christian priest				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	lift	should · passive		the sleeping woman		on the horse	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination
3	sink	past	the horse			beneath the load	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	King	a funeral pall			tree rules
5	flutter	gerund	a funeral pall not said here		the wind		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location

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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