Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 62

They had heard of it on the borders of the land, and also that Helga had caused their figures to be represented on the walls, for they belonged to her history.

Who acts: balustrades, Helga · What happens: hear, cause, represent, belong, figure · To what, where: borders, figures, walls

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 (balustrades, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 borders	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 borders	det
8	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 borders	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caused	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 caused	cc
14	also	also	ADV	_	18 caused	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 caused	mark
16	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 caused	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caused	aux
18	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 heard	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 figures	nmod:poss
20	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caused	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 represented	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 represented	aux:pass
23	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 caused	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 walls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 walls	det
26	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 represented	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 belonged	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 belonged	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belonged	nsubj
30	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caused	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 history	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 history	nmod:poss
33	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 belonged	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	balustrades = balustrade		the borders of the land	of feast	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	cause	past · perfect	Helga	balustrades's figures			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition figure=Patient
3	represent	to-infinitive · passive	Helga not said here		the walls		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»
4	belong	past	balustrades = balustrade			to Helga's history	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	figure		balustrades = balustrade				nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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