Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 57
"It must be quite awful," said little Gerda, "but did Kay win the princess?"
Who acts: page, little Gerda, Kay · What happens: be, say, win · To what, where: princess · 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 (page, little Gerda, Kay), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 awful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awful | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 awful | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 awful | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 awful | advmod |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 awful | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 awful | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Gerda | amod |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Gerda | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Gerda | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 win | cc |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 win | aux |
| 16 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 win | nsubj |
| 17 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 win | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 win | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | page | awful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | little Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win in a quote | past · do-support | Kay | the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
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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