Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 58
But Helga said she could not leave the Danish land without once more seeing her foster-mother, the loving wife of the Viking.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: say, not leave, see · To what, where: Danish land, foster mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Helga), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 leave | advmod |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 9 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | amod |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leave | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 foster | punct |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wife | det |
| 21 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wife | amod |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Viking | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Viking | det |
| 25 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wife | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Helga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not leave | could | Helga | the Danish land | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Helga not said here | Helga's foster mother the loving wife of the Viking | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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