Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 20
The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had found a real Princess.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: make, be, find · To what, where: wife, Princess, real Princess
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 convinced | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 convinced | cop |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 convinced | advmod |
| 11 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 convinced | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Princess | amod |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Prince | Prince's wife | Princess | accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary wife=Product | ||
| 2 | is | gerund | now | convinced property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | Prince | a real Princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
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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