Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 18

Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.

Who acts: bed, lady, Princess · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: real Princess, three little peas, twenty mattresses

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, lady, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 plain	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plain	cop
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 Princess	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 Princess	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 Princess	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princess	amod
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plain	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 able	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 able	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plain	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peas	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 peas	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 peas	amod
24	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feel	obj
25	through	through	ADP	_	28 mattresses	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mattresses	det
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 mattresses	nummod
28	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feel	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beds	cc
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 beds	nummod
31	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beds	compound
32	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mattresses	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bed			now	plain property	tree rules
2	is a	must	the lady	a real Princess				tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	Princess				able property	tree rules
4	feel	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the three little peas	the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Theme through mattress=Location

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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