Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 30

At last it burst, and forth stepped the thousand years' old king, the mummy form, black as pitch, black as the shining wood-snail, or the slimy mud of the swamp.

Who acts: form · What happens: burst, step, shine · To what, where: last, old king

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 (form), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burst	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stepped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stepped	cc
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 stepped	advmod
8	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 king	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 years	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stepped	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 form	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 form	det
17	mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 form	compound
18	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 king	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 black	punct
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 form	amod
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 pitch	case
22	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 black	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 black	punct
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 black	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	30 snail	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 snail	det
27	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 snail	amod
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 snail	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wood	punct
30	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 black	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mud	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 mud	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mud	det
34	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mud	amod
35	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 snail	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 swamp	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 swamp	det
38	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mud	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	form		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	step	past	form not said here	the thousand years's old king		forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location king=Theme
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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