Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 34
When the princess with her ladies passed by and heard the tune, she stopped and looked quite pleased, for she also could play it--in fact, it was the only tune she could play, and she played it with one finger.
Who acts: princess, sow, tune · What happens: pass by, hear, stop, look, play, be · To what, where: tune, only tune, fact
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 (princess, sow, tune), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ladies | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 princess | nmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tune | det |
| 12 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stopped | conj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 play | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 play | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 play | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 play | advmod |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 play | aux |
| 25 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 play | obj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 tune | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fact | case |
| 29 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tune | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fact | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tune | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tune | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tune | det |
| 34 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tune | amod |
| 35 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 play | parataxis |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 play | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 play | aux |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 tune | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 played | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 played | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 played | nsubj |
| 42 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 played | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 finger | case |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 finger | nummod |
| 46 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 played | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | the princess with sow's ladies | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the princess with sow's ladies not said here | the tune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | sow | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look | past | sow not said here | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | play | could | sow | tune | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | tune | the only tune | fact | tree rules | |||
| 7 | play | could | sow | the only tune not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | ||||
| 8 | play | past | sow | tune | with one finger | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Co-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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