Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 41
It was on the third day, there came marching cheerfully along to the palace a little personage, without horses or carriage, his eyes sparkling like yours; he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very poor."
Who acts: bit, eyes, Kay, clothes · What happens: be, come, march, sparkle, have · To what, where: little personage, beautiful long hair
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 (bit, eyes, Kay, clothes), 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 | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | parataxis |
| 10 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 came | xcomp |
| 11 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 12 along | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 marching | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marching | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 personage | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 personage | amod |
| 18 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marching | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 horses | punct |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 marching | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 carriage | cc |
| 23 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horses | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eyes | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 horses | conj |
| 27 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 eyes | acl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 yours | case |
| 29 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sparkling | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hair | amod |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hair | amod |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 poor | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 poor | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 42 poor | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 poor | cop |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 poor | advmod |
| 42 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bit | on the third day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | march | gerund | a little personage | to the palace result; without horses or carriage and Kay's eyes; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | Kay's eyes not said here | like yours | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Kay | beautiful long hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Kay's clothes | poor property | tree rules |
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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