Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 3
The queen threw herself on her knees, took off her beautiful crown, and, holding it in her hand, cried, "Take this from me, but do rub my husband and his courtiers."
Who acts: queen · What happens: throw, take off, hold, cry, take, rub · To what, where: queen, knees, beautiful crown, crown, hand, this · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crown | amod |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cried | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 cried | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 holding | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holding | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 holding | punct |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Take | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Take | punct |
| 26 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cried | ccomp |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Take | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Take | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rub | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 rub | cc |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 rub | aux |
| 33 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | parataxis |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 husband | nmod:poss |
| 35 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rub | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 courtiers | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 38 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 husband | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 rub | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the queen | queen | queen's knees | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take off | past | the queen not said here | queen's beautiful crown | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | crown | queen's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | this | from the queen = queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent this=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | rub in a quote | present · do-support | my husband and showman's courtiers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent husband=Destination | |||||
| 7 | crown | queen | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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