Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 2
He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong.
Who acts: Prince, hopes, something · What happens: travel, find, be · To what, where: world, lady
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 (Prince, hopes, something), 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 | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 world | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hopes | case |
| 8 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 finding | mark |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hopes | acl |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 lady | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | parataxis |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 was | advmod |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 something | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Prince | the world | in hopes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | hopes not said here | such lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | something | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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