Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 47
But I know from my tame sweetheart that he passed through the palace gates, saw the guards in their silver uniform, and the servants in their liveries of gold on the stairs, but he was not in the least embarrassed. '
Who acts: I, sweetheart · What happens: know, pass, see, not be · To what, where: tame sweetheart, palace gates, guards, silver uniform
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 (I, sweetheart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 know | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sweetheart | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sweetheart | amod |
| 7 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 gates | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gates | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gates | compound |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guards | det |
| 18 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 uniform | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 uniform | nmod:poss |
| 21 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 uniform | amod |
| 22 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guards | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 servants | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 servants | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 servants | det |
| 26 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 know | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 liveries | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 liveries | nmod:poss |
| 29 | liveries | livery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 servants | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 liveries | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 stairs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stairs | det |
| 34 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 servants | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 embarrassed | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 embarrassed | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 embarrassed | cop |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 embarrassed | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 embarrassed | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 embarrassed | det |
| 42 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 embarrassed | amod |
| 43 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | my tame sweetheart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | sweetheart | the palace gates | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | sweetheart not said here | the guards | guards's silver uniform | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not is | past | sweetheart | embarrassed 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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