Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 64
He was bold and nicely behaved; he had not come to woo the Princess, but only to hear her wisdom.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: be, behave, not come, woo, hear · To what, where: Princess, wisdom
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 (Raven), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bold | cop |
| 3 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 behaved | cc |
| 5 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 6 behaved | advmod |
| 6 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bold | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bold | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 woo | mark |
| 13 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woo | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hear | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 hear | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hear | mark |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bold | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Raven | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | participle | Raven not said here | nicely property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not come | past | Raven | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | woo | to-infinitive | Raven not said here | the Princess | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | Raven not said here | Princess's wisdom | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
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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