Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 34
It was just as if they had all taken something to make them sleepy while they were in the palace, for they did not recover themselves nor speak till they got back again into the street.
Who acts: footmen · What happens: take, make, be, not recover, speak, get back · To what, where: It, footmen, palace, street · 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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 taken | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 taken | advmod |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 taken | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 palace | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 palace | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 palace | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleepy | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 recover | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 recover | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 recover | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 recover | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 recover | advmod |
| 26 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | conj |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 recover | obj |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 speak | cc |
| 29 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 recover | conj |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 got | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 speak | ccomp |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 street | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 street | det |
| 37 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | It | all property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme something=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | footmen = footman | sleepy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | footmen = footman | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not recover | past · do-support | footmen = footman | footmen = footman | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present | footmen = footman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get back | past | footmen = footman | the street | again | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into street=Destination |
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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