Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 99
The body crumbled into dust, and a faded lotus-flower lay on the spot on which Helga had stood.
Who acts: body, faded lotus flower, Helga · What happens: crumble, fade, lie, stand · To what, where: dust, spot
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 (body, faded lotus flower, Helga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6573): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumbled | nsubj |
| 3 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 dust | case |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumbled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flower | det |
| 9 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 flower | amod |
| 10 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flower | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 lotus | punct |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crumbled | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 spot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stood | obl |
| 19 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | aux |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crumble | past | the body | into dust result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dust=Result | ||||
| 2 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past | a faded lotus flower | the spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past · perfect | Helga | the spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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