Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 81
Then she saw rising from the region of the dead, Baldur the gentle, the loving, and as the Viking's wife gazed upon him, she recognized his countenance.
Who acts: lake, wife · What happens: see, rise, gaze, recognize · To what, where: region, countenance
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 (lake, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 region | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 region | det |
| 7 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dead | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dead | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 region | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Baldur | punct |
| 12 | Baldur | Baldur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 region | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gentle | det |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Baldur | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loving | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loving | det |
| 17 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Baldur | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gazed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gazed | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 gazed | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Viking | det |
| 22 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Viking | case |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gazed | nsubj |
| 25 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gazed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 recognized | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 recognized | nsubj |
| 30 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 32 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recognized | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | lake | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | lake not said here | the region of the dead Baldur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from region=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | the Viking's wife | upon Baldur | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recognize | past | lake | Baldur's countenance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countenance=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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