Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 3

There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones.

Who acts: princesses, they · What happens: be, find out · To what, where: real ones · 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 (princesses, they), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 difficult	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 difficult	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 difficult	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 difficult	cop
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 difficult	csubj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 ones	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ones	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ones	cop
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ones	amod
17	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	princesses		there	enough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				difficult property	tree rules
3	find out	to-infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	they	real ones			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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