Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 101
Then the princess peeped out of her white-lily bed, and asked what was the matter.
Who acts: princess, matter · What happens: peep out, ask, be · To what, where: lily bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, matter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 peeped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peeped | nsubj |
| 4 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lily | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 white | punct |
| 10 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bed | compound |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peeped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 peeped | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | past | the princess | princess's lily bed | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the matter | 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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