Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 3

He pronounced the words as plainly as he could, because he meant to be kind to the little girl; and then he asked her where she was going all alone in the wide world.

Who acts: He, girl · What happens: pronounce, mean, be, ask, go · To what, where: words, girl, wide world

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 (He, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pronounced	nsubj
2	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pronounced	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 plainly	advmod
6	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	2 pronounced	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plainly	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 meant	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meant	nsubj
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pronounced	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 kind	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 kind	cop
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meant	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 girl	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 asked	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pronounced	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	obj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 going	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 going	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 asked	advcl
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 alone	advmod
32	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 going	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
35	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 world	amod
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 going	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pronounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pronounce	past	He	the words				plainly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					to the little girl; kind property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	he		girl		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	go	past · progressive	girl			the wide world		alone property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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