Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 29

She would ask him to guess three things which she had just thought of, and if he succeed, he was to marry her, and be king over all the land when her father died; but if he could not guess these three things, then she ordered him to be hanged or to have his head cut off.

Who acts: Heaven, landlord, father, head · What happens: ask, guess, think, succeed, be, die · To what, where: landlord, three things, king, land

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 (Heaven, landlord, father, head), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 guess	mark
6	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	xcomp
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 things	nummod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guess	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 thought	nsubj:pass
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 things	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 marry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 marry	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 succeed	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 succeed	nsubj
19	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 marry	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 succeed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marry	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 marry	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 king	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 king	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 king	cop
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	parataxis
30	over	over	ADP	_	33 land	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 land	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 land	det
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 king	nmod
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 died	mark
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 died	nsubj
37	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 king	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 guess	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 guess	cc
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 guess	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 guess	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 guess	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 guess	advmod
44	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
45	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 things	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 things	nummod
47	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 guess	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 ordered	punct
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 ordered	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 ordered	nsubj
51	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 guess	advcl
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 ordered	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	55 hanged	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 hanged	aux:pass
55	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 ordered	advcl
56	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 have	cc
57	to	to	PART	_	58 have	mark
58	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 hanged	conj
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 head	nmod:poss
60	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 cut	nsubj
61	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 have	advcl
62	off	off	ADP	_	61 cut	compound:prt
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would	Heaven		landlord				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	guess not said to happen	to-infinitive	Heaven not said here	three things					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		three things					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	succeed a condition, not said to happen	present	landlord						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	landlord					marry property	tree rules
6	is a	infinitive		king		all land			tree rules
7	die	past	Heaven's father						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	not guess a condition, not said to happen	could	landlord	this three things					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
9	order	past	Heaven		landlord		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	hange	to-infinitive · passive	Heaven not said here						tree rules
11	have	to-infinitive	Heaven not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	cut off	past	landlord's head						vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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