Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 68

It floated quite near to her, and she saw that it was the dead Christian priest, who also was coming to her wedding feast--coming from the heavenly kingdom.

Who acts: form, Helga, dead Christian priest · What happens: float, see, be, come · To what, where: Helga, dead Christian priest, wedding feast, heavenly kingdom

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 (form, Helga, dead Christian priest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 near	advmod
4	near	near	ADV	_	2 floated	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 floated	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 priest	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 priest	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 priest	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 priest	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 priest	amod
16	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 priest	compound
17	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coming	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 coming	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	22 coming	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 coming	aux
22	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 priest	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 feast	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feast	nmod:poss
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feast	compound
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coming	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 coming	punct
28	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 kingdom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 kingdom	det
31	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 kingdom	amod
32	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	float	past	form		Helga		near property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination
2	see	past	Helga					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	form	the dead Christian priest				tree rules
4	come	past · progressive	the dead Christian priest			Helga's wedding feast		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location
5	come	gerund	Helga not said here			the heavenly kingdom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location

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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