Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 32
They had all been warned in time, and might have left her alone, if they would.
What happens: warn, leave · To what, where: princes, princess
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warned | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 warned | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 warned | aux:pass |
| 5 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 warned | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 left | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 would | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 would | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 would | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect · passive | princes = prince | time | all property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | might · perfect | princess | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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