Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 106
And then the prince got out of his bed, and gave it up to Gerda,--he could do no more; and she lay down.
Who acts: prince, crow · What happens: get out, give up, do, lie down · To what, where: bed, appointment, Gerda, more
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, crow), 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 | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gave | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Gerda | case |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gave | conj |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lay | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 lay | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | the prince | prince's bed | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give up | past | the prince not said here | appointment | Gerda | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to gerda=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do | could | prince | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lie down | past | crow | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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