Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 38
Some of the wisest had taken a few slices of bread and butter with them, but they did not share it with their neighbors; they thought if they went in to the princess looking hungry, there would be a better chance for themselves."
Who acts: footmen · What happens: take, not share, think, go in, look, be · To what, where: Some, butter, better chance, bread · 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wisest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wisest | det |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slices | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slices | amod |
| 9 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bread | case |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slices | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 butter | cc |
| 13 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slices | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 butter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 share | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 share | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 share | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 share | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 share | advmod |
| 21 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 share | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 neighbors | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 share | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | advcl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 went | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 princess | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 princess | det |
| 35 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 went | advcl |
| 37 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 looking | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 chance | punct |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 be | expl |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 be | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 chance | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 chance | det |
| 43 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 chance | amod |
| 44 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 themselves | case |
| 46 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 chance | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | Some | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme slice=Destination | |||||
| 2 | not share | past · do-support | footmen = footman | butter | with footmen's neighbors | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | footmen = footman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in a condition, not said to happen | past | footmen = footman | to the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | footmen = footman not said here | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | infinitive | a better chance | for footmen = footman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | slice | bread | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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