Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 236
Now they were in the country where the princess reigned when she was at home.
Who acts: thoughts, princess · What happens: be, reign · To what, where: country, home
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 (thoughts, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 country | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 country | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | nsubj |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | advcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 home | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 home | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 home | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thoughts = thought | the country | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reign | past | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | princess | home | 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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