Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 108
The princess always wants to hear of this bird when I pay her my visit every hundred years.
Who acts: princess, I, my · What happens: want, hear, pay, visit · To what, where: visit, princess
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, I, my), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 wants | advmod |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 pay | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wants | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | iobj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 visit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the princess | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | of this bird | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | I | my visit | princess | year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset | ||
| 4 | visit | my | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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