Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 205
He had looked into the windows of her father's palace, both the upper and the lower windows; he had seen many things, and could therefore answer the princess, and make allusions which quite astonished her.
Who acts: prince, allusions · What happens: look, see, answer, make, astonish · To what, where: many things, princess, allusions, Water
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, allusions), 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 | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | aux |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 windows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 windows | det |
| 6 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 windows | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 upper | punct |
| 13 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 upper | cc:preconj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 upper | det |
| 15 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 windows | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 windows | det |
| 18 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 windows | amod |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 upper | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seen | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 answer | cc |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | aux |
| 29 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 30 answer | advmod |
| 30 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 princess | det |
| 32 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 answer | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 make | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 make | cc |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 answer | conj |
| 36 | allusions | allusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 make | obj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 astonished | nsubj |
| 38 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 39 astonished | advmod |
| 39 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 allusions | acl:relcl |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 astonished | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | prince | into the windows of Water's father's palace | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | prince | many things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | could | prince not said here | the princess | therefore property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | prince not said here | allusions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset allusion=Product | ||||
| 5 | astonish | past | allusions | Water | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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