Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 5

So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

Who acts: prince · What happens: come, be, like, have · To what, where: 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), 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	_	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sad	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 liked	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 liked	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 liked	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 liked	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 liked	aux
14	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 liked	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 princess	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 princess	amod
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	prince		again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	prince not said here			sad property	tree rules
3	like	would · perfect	prince				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here	a real princess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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