Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 39
The princess herself had a snow-white steed, decked with diamonds and rubies.
Who acts: princess · What happens: have, deck · To what, where: white steed
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 (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 | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 steed | det |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 white | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snow | punct |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steed | amod |
| 9 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decked | punct |
| 11 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 steed | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 diamonds | case |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 decked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rubies | cc |
| 15 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diamonds | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the princess | a white steed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | deck | participle | a white steed not said here | with diamonds and rubies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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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