Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 1

Once upon a time lived a poor prince; his kingdom was very small, but it was large enough to enable him to marry, and marry he would.

Who acts: kingdom, him · What happens: live, be, enable, marry · To what, where: poor prince, him

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, him), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prince	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prince	amod
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 small	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kingdom	nmod:poss
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 small	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 large	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 large	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 large	cop
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 small	conj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 enable	mark
22	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 large	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 enable	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 marry	mark
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 enable	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 marry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 marry	cc
28	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 would	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor prince	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme prince=Location
2	is	past	his kingdom			small property	tree rules
3	is	past	kingdom			enough, large property	tree rules
4	enable	to-infinitive	kingdom not said here	him = he			tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	him = he not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	marry	infinitive					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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