Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 43
Now the Princess happened to walk that way; and when she heard the tune, she stood quite still, and seemed pleased; for she could play “Lieber Augustine”; it was the only piece she knew; and she played it with one finger.
Who acts: Princess, rose, tune · What happens: happen, walk, hear, stand, seem, play · To what, where: way, tune, Lieber, only piece
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, rose, tune), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 walk | mark |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stood | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tune | det |
| 15 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 still | advmod |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 stood | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | cc |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 play | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 play | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 play | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 play | aux |
| 29 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Lieber | punct |
| 31 | Lieber | Lieber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 play | obj |
| 32 | Augustine | Augustine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Lieber | flat |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 play | punct |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 piece | punct |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 piece | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 piece | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 piece | det |
| 38 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 piece | amod |
| 39 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 knew | nsubj |
| 41 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 piece | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 played | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 played | cc |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 played | nsubj |
| 45 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 played | obj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 finger | case |
| 48 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 finger | nummod |
| 49 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 played | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the Princess | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | that way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | rose | the tune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | rose | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | pleased property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | play | could | rose | Lieber | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lieber=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | tune | the only piece | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | know | past | rose | the only piece not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | play | past | rose | tune | with one finger | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Co-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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