Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 235
And so it turned out, for the guards readily obeyed him, as they knew he was going to marry the king's daughter.
Who acts: prison, guards, man · What happens: turn out, obey, know, go, marry · To what, where: man, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prison, guards, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 turned | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 guards | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 guards | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guards | det |
| 9 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 obeyed | nsubj |
| 10 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 11 obeyed | advmod |
| 11 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obeyed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 obeyed | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marry | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | prison | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | obey | past | the guards | man | readily property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | past | guards = guard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | man not said here | the king's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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