Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 10
So the Princess was to have the rose, and the nightingale; and they were accordingly put into large silver caskets, and sent to her.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: have, put, send · To what, where: rose, princesses, large silver caskets, nightingale
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rose | det |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nightingale | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nightingale | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nightingale | det |
| 12 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 17 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 have | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 caskets | case |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 caskets | amod |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caskets | compound |
| 22 | caskets | casket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sent | cc |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Princess | the rose and the nightingale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | princesses = princess | large silver caskets | accordingly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 3 | send | past | nightingale | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |
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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