Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 57
A marriage was being celebrated, in which the beautiful Helga, glittering in silk and jewels, was the bride, and the bridegroom the young Arab prince.
Who acts: beautiful Helga · What happens: celebrate, glitter, be · To what, where: marriage, silk, bride
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 (beautiful Helga), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bride | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bride | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Helga | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Helga | amod |
| 11 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glittering | punct |
| 13 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Helga | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silk | case |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittering | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 jewels | cc |
| 17 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 silk | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Helga | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bride | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bridegroom | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bridegroom | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bridegroom | det |
| 25 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 prince | amod |
| 28 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 prince | amod |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bridegroom | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | a marriage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | the beautiful Helga not said here | silk and jewels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silk=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the beautiful Helga | the bride and the bridegroom | 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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