Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 89
But the queen was a very clever woman; she could do a great deal more than merely ride in a carriage.
Who acts: queen · What happens: be, do, ride · To what, where: clever woman, great deal, carriage
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 (queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 woman | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 woman | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 deal | amod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 ride | mark |
| 18 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 19 ride | advmod |
| 19 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 carriage | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 carriage | det |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ride | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the queen | a clever woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | could | queen | a great deal | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ride | present | queen not said here | a carriage | merely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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