Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 198

She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation directly with the strange gentleman, on their promenades.

Who acts: princess, grief · What happens: become, enter, promenade · To what, where: conversation

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 (princess, grief), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 entered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entered	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 entered	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 entered	nsubj
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 conversation	case
11	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obl
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	9 entered	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 gentleman	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gentleman	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gentleman	amod
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promenades	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 promenades	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 promenades	nmod:poss
20	promenades	promenade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 entered	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	princess		inquisitive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	enter	past	princess	conversation	with the strange gentleman; on grief's promenades; directly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_Location
3	promenade		grief			nom promenade «event 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: «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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