Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 28
No one dared to express an opinion until the king spoke, and desired one of them to go on with her story.
Who acts: one, king · What happens: dare, express, speak, desire, go on · To what, where: opinion, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, king), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 express | mark |
| 5 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 opinion | det |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 express | obj |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 express | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desired | cc |
| 14 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 desired | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desired | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 story | nmod:poss |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | no one not said here | a opinion | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | desire | past | no one not said here | one of king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go on | to-infinitive | no one not said here | with three's story | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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