Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 109
It was a pretty piece, with a king and a queen in it, who sat on a beautiful throne, and had gold crowns on their heads.
Who acts: play, pretty piece · What happens: be, sit, have · To what, where: pretty piece, beautiful throne, gold crowns, heads
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, pretty piece), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 queen | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 queen | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 throne | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 throne | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 throne | amod |
| 21 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sat | conj |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crowns | compound |
| 26 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 heads | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heads | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | play | a pretty piece and a queen in room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | a pretty piece and a queen in room | a beautiful throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a pretty piece and a queen in room not said here | gold crowns | piece's heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
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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