Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 36
If I were the old king, I would have her punished in some way."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, have, punish · To what, where: old king, punished way
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 king | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 way | amod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the old king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | would | I | princess's punished way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 3 | punish | participle | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «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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