Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 99
He then went back to his own little kingdom, and shut the door of his palace in her face.
Who acts: could'st · What happens: go back, shut · To what, where: door, face
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 (could'st), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kingdom | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kingdom | amod |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shut | cc |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | could'st | then | to could'st's own little kingdom result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | |||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | could'st not said here | the door of could'st's palace | nightingale's face | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=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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