Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 73
He could now carry the news into the rich palace that the marble Psyche was finished.
Who acts: Providence · What happens: carry, finish · To what, where: news, rich palace, marble
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Providence), 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 | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 carry | advmod |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 finished | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 marble | det |
| 13 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 marble | appos |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux:pass |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | could | Providence | the news | the rich palace | now | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | the marble | 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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