Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 40
And the story of the ostrich sunk deeply into the heart and mind of Helga: a life of happiness, both in the present and in the future, seemed secure for her, and what was yet to come might be the best of all, God willing.
Who acts: story · What happens: sink, seem, come, be, mind · To what, where: life, heart, Helga
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | _ | 7 sunk | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sunk | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ostrich | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ostrich | det |
| 6 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 7 sunk | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sunk | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mind | cc |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Helga | case |
| 15 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mind | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 life | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sunk | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 happiness | case |
| 20 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 life | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 present | punct |
| 22 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 present | cc:preconj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 present | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 present | det |
| 25 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 life | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 future | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 future | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 future | det |
| 29 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 present | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seemed | punct |
| 31 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sunk | conj |
| 32 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seemed | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 secure | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 come | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 come | cc |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 come | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 come | aux |
| 39 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 41 come | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 come | mark |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sunk | conj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 best | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 best | cop |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 best | det |
| 45 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 come | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 all | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 best | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 God | punct |
| 49 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 best | discourse |
| 50 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 God | amod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the story of the ostrich | a life of happiness both the present and the future | the heart and mind of Helga | deeply property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | seem | past | the story of the ostrich not said here | secure property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | might | of all; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mind | Helga | nom mind «cognition 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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