Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 140
The prince clapped his hands with pleasure; but the East Wind advised him not to express his admiration in that manner, or he might fall down, and find himself hanging on a church steeple.
Who acts: prince, East Wind · What happens: clap, advise, not express, fall down, find, hang · To what, where: hands, hand, admiration, manner, prince, church steeple · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, East Wind), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clapped | nsubj |
| 3 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clapped | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pleasure | case |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clapped | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 advised | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 advised | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wind | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wind | compound |
| 12 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 advised | nsubj |
| 13 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clapped | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 advised | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 express | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 express | mark |
| 17 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 advised | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 19 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 express | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 manner | det |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 express | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fall | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fall | aux |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clapped | parataxis |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 fall | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 find | cc |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fall | conj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 find | xcomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 steeple | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 steeple | det |
| 36 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 steeple | compound |
| 37 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hanging | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | the prince | prince's hands | with pleasure | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the East Wind | hand | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not express not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince's admiration | that manner | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall down | might | prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | prince not said here | prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | prince not said here | a church steeple | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on steeple=Location | ||||
| 7 | admire | prince | nom admiration «feeling 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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