Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 84
Early the next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and all the officers of the household, to see where the princess had been.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: accompany, see, be · To what, where: lady
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 (king, 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 9 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 officers | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 officers | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 officers | det |
| 15 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lady | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 household | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 household | det |
| 18 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 officers | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 accompanied | conj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 been | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 been | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 been | aux |
| 26 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 see | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | the king and queen | the lady and all officers of the household | morning | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the king and queen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | the princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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