Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 51
"She is not to be seen at all," they said; "she lives in a large copper castle, surrounded by walls and towers.
Who acts: people, princess · What happens: not be, say, live, surround · To what, where: princess, all, large copper castle · 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 (people, princess), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 seen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 21 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 castle | compound |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surrounded | punct |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 castle | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 walls | case |
| 26 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surrounded | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 towers | cc |
| 28 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 walls | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present · passive | princess | all | see property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | princess | a large copper castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 4 | surround in a quote | participle | a large copper castle not said here | by walls and towers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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