Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 22
So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, know, have, put, see, steal · To what, where: princess, real princess, pea, museum, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 now | case |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 knew | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 princess | amod |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pea | det |
| 23 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | aux:pass |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 museum | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 museum | det |
| 28 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seen | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 seen | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 seen | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 seen | aux:pass |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 put | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stolen | punct |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 stolen | mark |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 one | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 stolen | aux |
| 41 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 seen | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stolen | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | princess | for prince's wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | know | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | prince | a real princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put | past · passive | the pea | the museum | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in museum=Destination | ||||
| 5 | see | may · passive | pea | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | steal a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | no one | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=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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