Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 100
The prince was only like him in the neck, still he was young and pretty.
Who acts: prince, Kay · What happens: be · To what, where: neck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Kay), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 him | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 him | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 him | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neck | det |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 him | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 young | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neck | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pretty | cc |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 him | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | the neck | like Kay | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Kay | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | Kay not said here | tree rules |
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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