Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 234
They were soon agreed, both the princess and the shadow; but no one was to know about it before she arrived in her own kingdom.
Who acts: one, princess · What happens: agree, know, arrive · To what, where: people, own kingdom
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 (one, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 princess | cc:preconj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shadow | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shadow | det |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 know | obl |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 arrived | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 arrived | nsubj |
| 23 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 kingdom | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kingdom | amod |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrived | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | people | the princess and the shadow obl; soon property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past | no one | about beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | princess | princess's own kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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