Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 74
She was lying on the dog's back asleep, and looked so lovely, that every one who saw her would know she was a real princess.
Who acts: princess, one · What happens: lie, look, see, know, be · To what, where: back, princess, real 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 (princess, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 lovely | advmod |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 one | det |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 looked | conj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 princess | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 princess | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 27 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 princess | amod |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | princess | the dog's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | lovely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | that one | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | would | that one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | princess | a real princess | 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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