Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 51
Councillors and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying golden vessels; it was enough to make any one feel serious.
Who acts: Councillors, light, one · What happens: walk, carry, be, make, feel · To what, where: golden vessels, one
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 (Councillors, light, one), 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 | Councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ambassadors | cc |
| 3 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Councillors | conj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feet | amod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carrying | punct |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vessels | amod |
| 12 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carrying | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 enough | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enough | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enough | cop |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enough | advcl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 22 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feel | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Councillors and ambassadors | with bare feet; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Councillors and ambassadors not said here | golden vessels | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | light | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | light not said here | any one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | any one not said here | serious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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