Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 24

Then I sank down through the wavering ground, deep into the marsh beneath, which closed like a wall around me; I found myself after a while in fresher water; still a power drew me down deeper and deeper.

Who acts: I, marsh, power · What happens: sink down, close, find, draw down · To what, where: wavering ground, myself, me

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 (I, marsh, power), 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 sank	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sank	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
7	wavering	wavering	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	compound
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 marsh	punct
10	deep	deep	ADV	_	13 marsh	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 marsh	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marsh	det
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	13 marsh	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 closed	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 closed	nsubj
17	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 marsh	acl:relcl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wall	det
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closed	obl
21	around	around	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 closed	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	conj
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	obj
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 while	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 while	det
29	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	fresher	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 water	amod
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 while	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 drew	punct
34	still	still	ADV	_	37 drew	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 power	det
36	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drew	nsubj
37	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 drew	obj
39	down	down	ADP	_	37 drew	compound:prt
40	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 drew	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 deeper	cc
42	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 deeper	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	I		the wavering ground	then	into the marsh; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	close	past	the marsh				like a wall; around me	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	I	myself		while		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
4	draw down	past	a power	me		still	deep property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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