Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 53
"My little Roseleaf!" cried the General's lady, "thou art born to wed a prince."
Who acts: little Roseleaf · What happens: cry, bear, wed · To what, where: lady, thou, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little Roseleaf), 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 | _ | 4 Roseleaf | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Roseleaf | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Roseleaf | amod |
| 4 | Roseleaf | roseleaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Roseleaf | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Roseleaf | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 General | det |
| 9 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lady | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 General | case |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wed | mark |
| 18 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 born | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | My little Roseleaf | the General's lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | present · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wed in a quote | to-infinitive | a prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
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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