Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 3

Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him not quite right about the ladies.

Who acts: Princesses, hopes, real Princesses, Prince, another · What happens: find, be, decide, seem · To what, where: plenty, real Princesses, one thing, Prince

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 (Princesses, hopes, real Princesses, 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	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 plenty	case
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 impossible	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 impossible	cc
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 Princesses	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Princesses	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Princesses	cop
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princesses	amod
12	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 impossible	nsubj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 impossible	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	cop
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 decide	mark
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 decide	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 decide	mark
19	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 impossible	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 thing	case
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thing	nummod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 decide	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 seemed	advmod
27	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	29 seemed	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 another	punct
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seemed	obl
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 right	advmod
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 right	advmod
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seemed	xcomp
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 ladies	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ladies	det
37	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 right	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Princesses			plenty			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	hopes = hope	real Princesses					tree rules
3	is	past	real Princesses					impossible property	tree rules
4	decide	to-infinitive	Prince	one thing					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	seem	past	another		Prince		now	right property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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