Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 19
In this kingdom where we now are," said he, "there lives a princess, who is so wonderfully clever that she has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them too, although she is so clever.
Who acts: Kay, princess · What happens: say, live, be, read, forget · To what, where: kingdom, princess, newspapers, world · 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 (Kay, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 kingdom | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 are | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 are | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kingdom | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 lives | expl |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clever | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 clever | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 clever | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 clever | advmod |
| 22 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 23 clever | advmod |
| 23 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princess | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 read | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 read | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 read | aux |
| 27 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 clever | advcl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 newspapers | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 newspapers | det |
| 30 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 read | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 newspapers | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 forgotten | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forgotten | cc |
| 36 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 clever | parataxis |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 forgotten | obj |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 forgotten | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 clever | punct |
| 40 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 44 clever | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 clever | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 clever | cop |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 clever | advmod |
| 44 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 forgotten | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | this kingdom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | present | Kay | a princess | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme princess=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | a princess | clever, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | read | present · perfect | princess | all newspapers | the world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic | |||
| 5 | forget | participle | newspapers = newspaper | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | princess | clever property | 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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