Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 112
Then the soldiers and all the people were afraid, and cried, "Good soldier, you shall be our king, and you shall marry the beautiful princess."
Who acts: soldiers, you · What happens: be, cry, marry · To what, where: Good soldier, king, beautiful princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 people | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 soldiers | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soldier | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 soldier | punct |
| 15 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 soldier | amod |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 king | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 king | cop |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 king | nmod:poss |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 marry | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 marry | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afraid | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 princess | amod |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marry | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the soldiers and all people | then | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the soldiers and all people not said here | Good soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | you | our king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | shall | you | the beautiful princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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