Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 42
He came to her, and she placed the golden circlet round his neck, and begged him to deliver it safely to the Viking's wife, so that she might know that her foster-daughter still lived, was happy, and had not forgotten her.
Who acts: stork, Helga, foster daughter · What happens: come, place, beg, deliver, know, live · To what, where: Helga, golden circlet, stork, circlet, wife
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 (stork, Helga, foster daughter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 placed | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 placed | nsubj |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 circlet | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 circlet | amod |
| 11 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 begged | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begged | cc |
| 17 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 begged | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 deliver | mark |
| 20 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begged | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deliver | obj |
| 22 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 20 deliver | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Viking | det |
| 25 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Viking | case |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deliver | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 know | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 know | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begged | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 lived | mark |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 daughter | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 foster | punct |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lived | nsubj |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 lived | advmod |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 happy | punct |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 happy | cop |
| 43 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lived | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forgotten | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 forgotten | cc |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 forgotten | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 forgotten | advmod |
| 48 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 came | parataxis |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 forgotten | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stork | Helga | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | place | past | Helga | the golden circlet | round stork's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | stork not said here | stork | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | deliver not said to happen | to-infinitive | stork not said here | circlet | the Viking's wife | safely property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Destination | ||
| 5 | know | might | Helga | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | live | past | Helga's foster daughter | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not forget | past · perfect | Helga | tree rules |
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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