Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 247
The princess and the shadow stepped out on the balcony to show themselves, and to receive one cheer more.
Who acts: princess · What happens: step out, show, receive · To what, where: balcony, princess, one cheer
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shadow | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | conj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stepped | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 balcony | det |
| 10 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 show | mark |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stepped | advcl |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 show | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 receive | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 receive | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 receive | mark |
| 17 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cheer | nummod |
| 19 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 receive | obj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 receive | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | the princess and the shadow | the balcony | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on balcony=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the princess and the shadow not said here | princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the princess and the shadow not said here | one cheer | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cheer=Theme more=Location |
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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