Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 60

He was quite free and agreeable and said he had not come to woo the princess, but to hear her wisdom; and he was as pleased with her as she was with him."

Who acts: Kay, princess · What happens: be, say, not come, woo, hear · To what, where: princess, wisdom · 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 (Kay, princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 free	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 free	advmod
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 agreeable	cc
6	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 free	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 free	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 woo	mark
14	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woo	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hear	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 woo	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wisdom	nmod:poss
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pleased	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pleased	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pleased	cop
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 pleased	case
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 free	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pleased	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 him	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 him	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 him	cop
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pleased	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 free	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kay		free property	tree rules
2	be		Kay not said here			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Kay not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not come	past	Kay			tree rules
5	woo	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	the princess		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	hear	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	princess's wisdom		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus
7	is	past	Kay		with princess; pleased property	tree rules
8	is	past	princess		with sweetheart	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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