Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 50
It is the popular king who sits there, once the ruler of three kingdoms, the friend of the citizen and the peasant.
Who acts: groove, popular king · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: popular king
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groove, popular 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sits | nsubj |
| 7 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sits | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruler | punct |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 12 ruler | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ruler | det |
| 12 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kingdoms | case |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kingdoms | nummod |
| 15 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ruler | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 friend | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 citizen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 citizen | det |
| 21 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 friend | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 peasant | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peasant | det |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 citizen | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | groove | the popular king and the friend of the citizen and the peasant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the popular king and the friend of the citizen and the peasant | there | once the ruler of three kingdoms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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