Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 33

And when they stood before the throne on which the princess sat, they could do nothing but repeat the last words she had said; and she had no particular wish to hear her own words over again.

Who acts: footmen, princess · What happens: stand, sit, do, repeat, say, have · To what, where: throne, nothing, last words, particular wish, own words · 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 (footmen, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stood	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 throne	det
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sat	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 throne	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 do	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 repeat	cc
19	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 words	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 repeat	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 words	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 wish	det
31	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wish	amod
32	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hear	mark
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wish	acl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 words	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 words	amod
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hear	obj
38	over	over	ADV	_	39 again	advmod
39	again	again	ADV	_	34 hear	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	footmen = footman		the throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before throne=Location
2	sit	past	the princess		the throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	do	could	footmen = footman	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	repeat	present	footmen = footman not said here	the last words			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	princess	the last words not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	have	past	princess	no particular wish			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
7	hear	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess's own words		again	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
8	word		princess				nom word «communication 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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