Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 94
One, in which the princess lay, was white, the other was red; and in this Gerda had to seek for little Kay.
Who acts: princess, other, Gerda · What happens: lie, be, have, seek
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 (princess, other, Gerda), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lay | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 white | cop |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 red | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 red | cop |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 white | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Gerda | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 Gerda | det |
| 20 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seek | mark |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Kay | case |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Kay | amod |
| 26 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the princess not said here | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the other | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | this Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | this Gerda not said here | for little Kay | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for kay=Theme |
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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