Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 45
A subaltern under his orders had cut off one of the princes, and taken him prisoner, and the Prince had been obliged to ride through the town with a little band of captured soldiers, himself a prisoner behind the General.
Who acts: General · What happens: cut off, take, oblige, ride, capture, order · To what, where: subaltern, General, Prince, town
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 subaltern | det |
| 2 | subaltern | subaltern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 orders | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 subaltern | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | aux |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 cut | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princes | det |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taken | cc |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cut | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | obj |
| 17 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | compound |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 obliged | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 obliged | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 obliged | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 obliged | aux:pass |
| 24 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cut | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ride | mark |
| 26 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 obliged | advcl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ride | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 band | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 band | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 band | amod |
| 33 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ride | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 soldiers | case |
| 35 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 soldiers | amod |
| 36 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 band | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 himself | punct |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 obliged | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 prisoner | det |
| 40 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 obliged | xcomp |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 43 General | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 General | det |
| 43 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 prisoner | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | a subaltern under General's orders | off one of the princes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | General | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||||
| 3 | oblige | past · perfect · passive | the Prince | General obl | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | to-infinitive | the town | with a little band of captured soldiers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through town=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | capture | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | order | General | nom order «communication 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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