Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 23

Then she assembled all her court ladies together at the beat of the drum, and when they heard of her intentions they were very much pleased. '

Who acts: princess, ladies · What happens: assemble, hear, be, intend · To what, where: court ladies, beat · 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, ladies), 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	3 assembled	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assembled	nsubj
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ladies	det:predet
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ladies	nmod:poss
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ladies	compound
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 assembled	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 beat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beat	det
11	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 drum	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 drum	det
14	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beat	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heard	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assembled	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 intentions	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 intentions	nmod:poss
22	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heard	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pleased	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pleased	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 pleased	advmod
27	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heard	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assembled	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	past	princess	princess's court ladies	the beat of the drum	then	together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
2	hear	past	ladies = lady				of princess's intentions	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of intention=Stimulus
3	is	past	ladies = lady				pleased property	tree rules
4	intend		princess					nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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