Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 3

He took the cross from the grave, and held it aloft, and now they rode through the air over the rustling trees, over the hills where warriors lay buried each by his dead war-horse; and the brazen monumental figures rose up and galloped forth, and stationed themselves on the summits of the hills.

Who acts: perfume, rays, warriors, brazen monumental figures · What happens: take, hold, ride, lay, bury, rise up · To what, where: cross, grave, air, each, rays, summits

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 (perfume, rays, warriors, brazen monumental figures), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cross	det
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 held	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 held	obj
12	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 held	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rode	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rode	cc
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 rode	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rode	nsubj
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rode	obl
21	over	over	ADP	_	24 trees	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
23	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trees	compound
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rode	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hills	punct
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 hills	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hills	det
28	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rode	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 lay	advmod
30	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hills	advcl
32	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lay	xcomp
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 buried	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	39 horse	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 horse	nmod:poss
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 horse	amod
37	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 horse	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 war	punct
39	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 buried	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 rose	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rose	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 figures	det
43	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 figures	amod
44	monumental	monumental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 figures	amod
45	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rose	nsubj
46	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 rose	compound:prt
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 galloped	cc
49	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 rose	conj
50	forth	forth	ADV	_	49 galloped	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 stationed	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 stationed	cc
53	stationed	station	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
54	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 stationed	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 summits	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 summits	det
57	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 stationed	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 hills	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 hills	det
60	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 summits	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	perfume	the cross	the grave			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cross=Theme from grave=Initial_Location
2	hold	past	perfume not said here	cross			aloft property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	ride	past	rays = ray		the air	now	over the rustling trees; over the hills	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory
4	lay	present	warriors					tree rules
5	bury	participle	warriors not said here	each			by perfume's dead war horse	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent each=Theme by horse=Destination
6	rise up	past	the brazen monumental figures					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	gallop	participle	the brazen monumental figures not said here				forth property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	station	past	perfume not said here	rays = ray	the summits of the hills			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on summit=Destination

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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