Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 123
It was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince and Princess shone like a star upon it; the coachman, the footmen, and the outriders, for outriders were there, too, all wore golden crowns.
Who acts: carriage, arms, outriders, coachman · What happens: be, shine, wear · To what, where: carriage, golden crowns
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, arms, outriders, coachman), 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 | 5 gold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gold | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gold | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shone | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arms | det |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shone | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Princess | cc |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | conj |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gold | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 star | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 star | det |
| 18 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shone | obl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shone | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 coachman | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coachman | det |
| 23 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wore | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 footmen | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 footmen | det |
| 26 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 coachman | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 there | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 there | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 outriders | det |
| 30 | outriders | outrider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 there | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 outriders | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 outriders | case |
| 33 | outriders | outrider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 outriders | conj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 there | cop |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 coachman | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 too | punct |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 there | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wore | punct |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 wore | advmod |
| 40 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shone | parataxis |
| 41 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 crowns | amod |
| 42 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 wore | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | carriage | of pure gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the arms of the Prince and Princess | carriage | like a star | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the outriders and outriders | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | the coachman and the footmen | golden crowns | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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