Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 217

So they danced once more together; and she was about to declare herself, but she was discreet; she thought of her country and kingdom, and of the many persons she would have to reign over.

Who acts: lands, princess · What happens: dance, be, declare, think, have, reign over · To what, where: princess

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 (lands, princess), 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 danced	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 together	advmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 danced	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 about	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 about	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 about	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 about	cop
11	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 danced	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 declare	mark
13	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 about	xcomp
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 declare	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 discreet	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 discreet	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 discreet	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 discreet	cop
19	discreet	discreet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 danced	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 country	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 country	nmod:poss
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kingdom	cc
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 country	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 have	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 persons	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 persons	det
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 persons	amod
33	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 have	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 danced	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 reign	mark
38	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 have	xcomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	38 reign	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance	past	lands = land		together property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	princess		about property	tree rules
3	declare speech: other	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute
4	is	past	princess		discreet property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	princess		of princess's country and kingdom	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	would	princess		of the many persons	tree rules
7	reign over	to-infinitive	princess not said here			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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