Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 224
After a time, the princess returned to the land over which she reigned, and the shadow accompanied her.
Who acts: princess, nail, shadow · What happens: return, reign, accompany · To what, where: land, nail
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 (princess, nail, shadow), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 reigned | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reigned | nsubj |
| 14 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 land | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accompanied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 accompanied | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shadow | det |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accompanied | nsubj |
| 19 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 accompanied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the princess | time | to the land result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | |||
| 2 | reign | past | nail | the land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past | the shadow | nail | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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