Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 2
His kingdom was very small, but still quite large enough to marry upon; and he wished to marry.
Who acts: kingdom, Prince · What happens: be, marry, wish
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 (kingdom, Prince), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 large | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 small | conj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 large | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 marry | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince's kingdom | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Prince's kingdom not said here | still | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | Prince's kingdom not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | Prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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