Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 2

It was rather bold of him that he went and asked the emperor's daughter: "Will you marry me?" but he ventured to do so, for his name was known far and wide, and there were hundreds of princesses who would have gladly accepted him, but would she do so?

Who acts: kingdom, he, daughter, hundreds, she, his · What happens: be, go, ask, marry, venture, do · To what, where: daughter, me, name, princesses · Speech: someone speaks here

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, he, daughter, hundreds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bold	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 bold	advmod
4	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bold	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bold	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 emperor	det
13	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 emperor	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	iobj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
18	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 marry	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 ventured	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ventured	nsubj
26	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ventured	xcomp
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 do	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 known	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 known	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 name	nmod:poss
33	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 known	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 known	aux:pass
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 do	advcl
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 known	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wide	cc
38	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 far	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 were	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 were	cc
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 were	expl
42	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bold	conj
43	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 were	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 princesses	case
45	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hundreds	nmod
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 accepted	nsubj:pass
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 accepted	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 accepted	aux
49	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	50 accepted	advmod
50	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 princesses	acl:relcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 accepted	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 do	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 do	cc
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 do	aux
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 do	nsubj
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bold	conj
57	so	so	ADV	_	56 do	advmod
58	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	kingdom				of him = he; bold property	tree rules
2	go	past	he					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here		the emperor's daughter			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
4	marry in a quote	future	the emperor's daughter = daughter	me				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	venture	past	he					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	to-infinitive	he not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know	past · passive		his name			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
8	be	past	hundreds of princesses			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	accept	would · perfect · passive		princesses			gladly property	tree rules
10	do	would	she					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	name		his = he					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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