Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 54
The prince was already at the door, but they knew nothing of it; people don't see far beyond the threshold.
Who acts: prince, princes, people · What happens: be, know, not see · To what, where: door, nothing
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 (prince, princes, people), 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 | 7 door | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 door | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 door | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 door | acl:relcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 knew | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 door | parataxis |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 see | advmod |
| 21 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 23 threshold | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 threshold | det |
| 23 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 door | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | princes = prince | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | present · do-support | people | beyond the threshold; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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