Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 37
They were hungry and thirsty, for at the palace they did not get even a glass of water.
Who acts: footmen · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: glass
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thirsty | cc |
| 5 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hungry | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 palace | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hungry | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 glass | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glass | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | footmen = footman | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | footmen = footman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not get | past · do-support | footmen = footman | a glass of water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus |
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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