Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 208

They danced once more, and she was nearly telling him, but she had some discretion; she thought of her country, her kingdom, and the number of people over whom she would one day have to rule. "

Who acts: eyes, Water · What happens: dance, be, have, think, rule · To what, where: prince, discretion

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 (eyes, Water), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 danced	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 telling	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 telling	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	cop
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 telling	advmod
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 danced	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 discretion	det
17	discretion	discretion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 country	nmod:poss
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kingdom	punct
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kingdom	nmod:poss
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 country	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 number	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 number	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 number	det
30	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 people	case
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 number	nmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 whom	case
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 people	nmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 day	nummod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obl:unmarked
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 whom	acl:relcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rule	mark
41	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 have	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	eyes = eye					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Water		prince		nearly, tell property	tree rules
3	have	past	Water	some discretion				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discretion=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	Water				of Water's country and Water's kingdom	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	would	Water			day		tree rules
6	rule	to-infinitive	Water not said here					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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