Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 113
The forest crow, who was now married, accompanied her for the first three miles; he sat by Gerda's side, as he could not bear riding backwards.
Who acts: forest crow, prince · What happens: marry, accompany, sit, not bear, ride · To what, where: forest crow, princess
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 (forest crow, prince), 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 | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crow | compound |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompanied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 married | advmod |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crow | punct |
| 10 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accompanied | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miles | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 miles | amod |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 miles | nummod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accompanied | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 accompanied | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Gerda | case |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bear | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 bear | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bear | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bear | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 bear | advmod |
| 29 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sat | advcl |
| 30 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 bear | xcomp |
| 31 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 30 riding | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the forest crow | now | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accompany | past | the forest crow | princess | for the first three miles | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | past | prince | by Gerda's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | not bear | could | prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | prince not said here | backwards property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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