Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 78

And, close to the terrified woman, Helga seemed to be seated on the floor, in the hideous form of a frog, yet trembling, and clinging to her foster-mother, who took her on her lap, and lovingly caressed her, hideous and frog-like as she was.

Who acts: Helga, foster mother · What happens: seem, seat, tremble, cling, take, caress · To what, where: floor, Helga, lap, frog

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, foster mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 close	punct
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 woman	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 seated	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seated	aux:pass
13	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 form	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 form	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 form	det
20	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 form	amod
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 frog	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 frog	det
24	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 form	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trembling	punct
26	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	27 trembling	cc
27	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 seemed	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 clinging	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clinging	cc
30	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 trembling	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 mother	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
33	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mother	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 foster	punct
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clinging	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 took	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 took	nsubj
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mother	acl:relcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 took	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 lap	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 lap	nmod:poss
42	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 caressed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 caressed	cc
45	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	46 caressed	advmod
46	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 caressed	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hideous	punct
49	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 caressed	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 like	cc
51	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 like	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 frog	punct
53	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hideous	conj
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 was	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 was	nsubj
56	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 like	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Helga				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	seat	to-infinitive · passive	Helga not said here		the floor	in the hideous form of a frog	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: in form=Location
3	tremble	gerund	Helga not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cling	gerund	Helga not said here			to Helga's foster mother	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to mother=Co-Theme
5	take	past	Helga's foster mother	Helga	Helga's lap		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination
6	caress	past	Helga not said here	Helga		hideous, lovingly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer
7	be	past	Helga				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	form			a frog			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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