Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 52

No one but the king himself can pass in or out, for there has been a prophecy that she will marry a common soldier, and the king cannot bear to think of such a marriage."

Who acts: one, princess, king · What happens: pass, be, marry, not bear, think · To what, where: prophecy, common soldier

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 (one, princess, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	nsubj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 king	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 pass	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pass	aux
8	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 pass	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 out	cc
11	out	out	ADV	_	9 in	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prophecy	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 been	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 been	expl
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 been	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 prophecy	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 prophecy	det
18	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 marry	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 prophecy	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 soldier	det
24	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 soldier	amod
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bear	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bear	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bear	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bear	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 bear	advmod
32	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pass	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 think	mark
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bear	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 marriage	case
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 marriage	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 marriage	det
38	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 think	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	can	no one but the king			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	participle		a prophecy		tree rules
3	marry	future	princess	a common soldier		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
4	not bear	can	the king			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the king not said here		of such marriage	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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