Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 76

Then the dog ran back with the princess; but in the morning, while at breakfast with the king and queen, she told them what a singular dream she had had during the night, of a dog and a soldier, that she had ridden on the dog's back, and been kissed by the soldier.

Who acts: dog, princess, singular dream, soldier · What happens: run back, tell, have, ride, kiss · To what, where: breakfast, flint, back · 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 (dog, princess, singular dream, soldier), 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	4 ran	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 morning	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 morning	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 breakfast	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 breakfast	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 breakfast	case
17	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breakfast	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 queen	cc
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 king	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 had	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dream	det
29	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dream	amod
30	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	aux
33	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 told	ccomp
34	during	during	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dog	punct
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 dog	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 dog	det
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 soldier	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 soldier	det
43	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dog	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 ridden	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 ridden	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 ridden	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 ridden	aux
48	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 told	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	53 back	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dog	det
51	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 back	nmod:poss
52	's	's	PART	_	51 dog	case
53	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ridden	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 kissed	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 kissed	cc
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 kissed	aux:pass
57	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 ridden	conj
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 soldier	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 soldier	det
60	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 kissed	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	past	the dog		breakfast with the king and queen	then; morning	with the princess	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at breakfast=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	princess	flint				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past · perfect	a singular dream			night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	ride	past · perfect	princess		the dog's back			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	kiss	participle · passive	the soldier					vn marry-36.2 «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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