Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 31

Each prince who came and tried the three guesses, so that he might marry the princess, had been unable to find them out, and had been hanged or beheaded.

Who acts: prince, king · What happens: come, try, marry, be, find out, hange · To what, where: three guesses, princess, princes

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 (prince, king), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guesses	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 guesses	nummod
9	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marry	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 marry	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 marry	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	aux
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unable	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 unable	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 unable	cop
21	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 marry	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 unable	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hanged	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hanged	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hanged	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 hanged	aux:pass
30	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 beheaded	cc
32	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 hanged	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	each prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	each prince not said here	the three guesses		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Eventuality
3	marry	might	king	the princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
4	is	past · perfect	king not said here		unable property	tree rules
5	find out	to-infinitive	king not said here	princes = prince		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	hange	past · perfect · passive				tree rules
7	behead	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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