Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 235
"I have not sinned yet," said the prince, "and I will not;" and then he pushed aside the boughs to follow the princess.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not sin, say, push, follow · To what, where: boughs, princess · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sinned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sinned | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sinned | advmod |
| 5 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 sinned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinned | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinned | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 will | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 will | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pushed | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 pushed | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pushed | nsubj |
| 23 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 23 pushed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boughs | det |
| 26 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pushed | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 follow | mark |
| 28 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pushed | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 follow | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sin in a quote | present · perfect | the prince = prince | yet | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | push | past | prince | the boughs | then | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme | ||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the princess | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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: «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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