Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 265
The princess and the shadow went out on the balcony to show themselves, and get another hurrah!
Who acts: princess · What happens: go out, show, get · To what, where: balcony, soldiers, hurrah
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shadow | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 balcony | det |
| 10 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 show | mark |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 show | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | conj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hurrah | det |
| 18 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the princess and the shadow | the balcony | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the princess and the shadow not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | the princess and the shadow not said here | another hurrah | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurrah=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/265/