Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 124
The Prince and the Princess assisted her into the carriage themselves, and wished her all success.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: assist, wish · To what, where: Princess, carriage
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 (Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assisted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 6 | assisted | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 assisted | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 carriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carriage | det |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assisted | obl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 carriage | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assisted | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 success | det |
| 17 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wished | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist | past | the Prince and the Princess | Princess | the carriage Prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | wish | past | the Prince and the Princess not said here | Princess | tree rules |
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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