Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 115

After there had been a little dancing, the princess told the magician that she had a new suitor, and asked him what she could think of for the suitor to guess when he came to the castle the next morning.

Who acts: princess, suitor · What happens: be, tell, have, ask, think, guess · To what, where: magician, new suitor, suitor, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, suitor), 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	After	after	ADP	_	7 dancing	case
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 dancing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dancing	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dancing	amod
7	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dancing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 magician	det
13	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 suitor	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 suitor	amod
19	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	iobj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 think	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asked	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 suitor	case
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 suitor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 suitor	det
31	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 think	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 guess	mark
33	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 think	ccomp
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 came	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 guess	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 castle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 castle	det
39	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 morning	det
41	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 morning	amod
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle					after a little dancing		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		the magician				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent magician=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	princess	a new suitor					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	the princess not said here		suitor				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	think speech: other not said to happen	could	princess					of the suitor	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
6	guess	to-infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	suitor			the castle	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

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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