Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 56
The servants' pages, who always wore slippers, could hardly be looked at, they held themselves up so proudly by the door."
Who acts: pages, boots, servants · What happens: wear, look, hold up, page · To what, where: slippers, pages, boots
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 (pages, boots, servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pages | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 servants | case |
| 4 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wore | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wore | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 wore | advmod |
| 8 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pages | acl:relcl |
| 9 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wore | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pages | punct |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | aux |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 looked | aux:pass |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | nsubj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 held | compound:prt |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 proudly | advmod |
| 22 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 18 held | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the servants's pages | slippers | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | could · passive | the servants's pages | hardly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hold up | past | boots = boot | boots = boot | by the door; proudly property | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme | |||
| 4 | page | the servants | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/56/