Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 33

The old king became at last so distressed at all these dreadful circumstances, that for a whole day every year he and his soldiers knelt and prayed that the princess might become good; but she continued as wicked as ever.

Who acts: old king, king, princess · What happens: become, distress, kneel, pray, continue · To what, where: last, dreadful circumstances, whole day

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 (old king, king, princess), 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	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 distressed	advmod
8	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 circumstances	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 circumstances	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 circumstances	det
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 circumstances	amod
13	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 distressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 circumstances	appos
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 that	nmod
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 day	nmod:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knelt	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 soldiers	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 soldiers	nmod:poss
25	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 he	conj
26	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 day	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prayed	cc
28	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knelt	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 become	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 become	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 prayed	advcl
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 become	xcomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 continued	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 continued	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 continued	nsubj
38	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	parataxis
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 wicked	advmod
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 continued	xcomp
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 ever	case
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 continued	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the old king		last		tree rules
2	distress	participle	the old king not said here		all dreadful circumstances		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	kneel	past	king	a whole day every year not said here			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Topic
4	pray	past	king not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	become	might	the princess			good property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	continue	past	princess			wicked property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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