Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 200
This foreign prince--for he must be a prince--pleases me above all things.
Who acts: prince, foreign prince · What happens: be, please · To what, where: me, things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, foreign 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleases | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 -- | case |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 -- | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 -- | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 -- | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 -- | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 -- | compound |
| 11 | -- | -- | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleases | obl |
| 12 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pleases | obj |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pleases | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | prince | for a prince -- | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | please | present | this foreign prince | me | all things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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