Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 196

So they came to a watering-place where there were many strangers, and amongst them was a princess, who was troubled with seeing too well; and that was so alarming!

Who acts: grief, princess, that · What happens: come, be, see · To what, where: watering place

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, princess, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
6	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 watering	punct
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 were	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 place	acl:relcl
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 strangers	amod
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 were	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 princess	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 princess	cc
16	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	20 princess	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 princess	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 princess	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 troubled	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 troubled	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 troubled	cop
24	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 princess	conj
25	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 seeing	mark
26	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 troubled	advcl
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 seeing	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 alarming	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 alarming	cc
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 alarming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 alarming	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 alarming	advmod
34	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	grief	a watering place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	is	past	grief		amongst a princess	tree rules
3	is	past	a princess		troubled property	tree rules
4	see	gerund	a princess not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	that		alarming property	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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