Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 46
The lady who acted the part of the queen expected to be treated as a queen off the stage, as well as on it, or else she said she should get out of practice.
Who acts: lady, queen · What happens: act, expect, treat, say, get out · To what, where: part, stage, queen, practice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acted | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 acted | nsubj |
| 4 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 queen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 queen | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 treated | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 treated | aux:pass |
| 13 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 expected | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treated | obl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 stage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stage | det |
| 19 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 queen | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 it | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 it | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 acted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 said | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 acted | conj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 get | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | aux |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 practice | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 practice | case |
| 36 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past | the lady | the part of the queen | stage | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | expect | participle | the queen not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | treat not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the queen not said here | as a queen off the stage | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as queen=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | lady | else property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | get out | should | lady | practice | 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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