Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 68

Helga must have helped him in his flight, for it was her horse that was missed from the stable; but by what power had all this been accomplished?

Who acts: Helga, flight · What happens: help, be, miss, accomplish · To what, where: papa, flight, horse, stable, this

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, flight), 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	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 helped	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 helped	aux
4	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 flight	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 flight	nmod:poss
8	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 horse	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 horse	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 horse	cop
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod:poss
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl:agent
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 missed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 missed	aux:pass
17	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 horse	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 stable	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stable	det
20	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 missed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 accomplished	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 accomplished	cc
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
24	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	25 power	det
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 accomplished	aux
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 accomplished	det:predet
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 accomplished	nsubj:pass
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 accomplished	aux:pass
30	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 helped	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	must · perfect	Helga		papa	papa's flight		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	is	past	flight				for Helga's horse	tree rules
3	miss	past · passive		Helga's horse		the stable		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	accomplish	past · perfect · passive		this				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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