Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 2
He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted.
Who acts: prince · What happens: travel, find, get, want · To what, where: world, one
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 world | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 travelled | advcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 12 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 get | advmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 travelled | parataxis |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 wanted | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | prince | the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | prince not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | could | prince | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want | past | prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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