Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess.
Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: be, want, marry, have · To what, where: princess, real princess
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princess), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prince | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marry | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 was | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 princess | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 princess | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 princess | amod |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a prince | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | past | a prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | a prince not said here | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | would | princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | princess not said here | a real princess | tree rules |
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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