Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 5

The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, sprang by with a startled bound, for in her hand the maiden bore a lighted lamp.

Who acts: deer, maiden, thought · What happens: come down, quench, spring, startle, bear, light · To what, where: river, thirst, lighted lamp

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, maiden, thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 quench	mark
11	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thirst	nmod:poss
13	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quench	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sprang	punct
15	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thirst	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 bound	case
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 bound	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bound	det
19	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bound	amod
20	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hand	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 hand	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quench	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bore	nsubj
28	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hand	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lamp	det
30	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lamp	amod
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bore	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the deer		the river	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	quench	to-infinitive	the deer not said here	thought's thirst		for thought's hand	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
3	spring	participle		thought's thirst not said here		by a startled bound	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bound=Trajectory
4	startle	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	bear	past	the maiden	a lighted lamp			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
6	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	thirst		thought				nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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