Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 114
The princess came out of the copper castle, and became queen, which was very pleasing to her.
Who acts: princess, queen · What happens: come out, become, be · To what, where: copper castle, queen, princess
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 (princess, queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 7 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | compound |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleasing | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pleasing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleasing | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 pleasing | advmod |
| 17 | pleasing | pleasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 queen | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleasing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the princess | the copper castle | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the princess not said here | queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | princess | pleasing property | tree rules |
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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