Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 8
This rose and the nightingale he wished to give to the princess; and therefore both were put into big silver cases and sent to her.
Who acts: rose · What happens: wish, give, put, send · To what, where: princess, both, big silver cases, name
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 (rose), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nightingale | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nightingale | det |
| 5 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 15 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wished | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 cases | case |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cases | amod |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cases | compound |
| 22 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sent | cc |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 put | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | this rose and the nightingale | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | this rose and the nightingale not said here | the princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | past · passive | both | big silver cases | therefore property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 4 | send | participle | name | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |
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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