Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 34

*Bordingborg, in the reign of King Waldemar, a considerable place, now an unimportant little town.

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	*	*	PUNCT	_	2 Bordingborg	punct
2	Bordingborg	Bordingborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reign	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 reign	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reign	det
6	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bordingborg	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 King	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reign	nmod
9	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bordingborg	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 town	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 town	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 town	det
17	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 town	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 town	amod
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Bordingborg	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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