Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 4

But so he did; for his name was renowned far and wide; and there were a hundred princesses who would have answered, “Yes!” and “Thank you kindly.”

Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, renown, answer, thank, name · To what, where: name, hundred princesses, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 renowned	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 renowned	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 renowned	aux:pass
10	renowned	renown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 renowned	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wide	cc
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 far	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 were	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Yes	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 princesses	det
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 princesses	nummod
20	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 answered	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 answered	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 answered	aux
24	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 princesses	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
27	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 did	conj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Yes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Thank	cc
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Thank	punct
32	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	27 Yes	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 Thank	obj
34	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	32 Thank	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 Thank	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Prince				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	renown	past · passive		Prince's name		far property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		a hundred princesses			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	Prince not said here		you	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	name		Prince				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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