Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 46
"It could not be true," he thought, "that she was really a wicked witch, who ordered people to be hanged or beheaded, if they could not guess her thoughts.
Who acts: whip, face, princess, wicked witch, people · What happens: not be, think, be, order, hange, behead · To what, where: wicked witch, people, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whip, face, princess, wicked witch), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 true | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 true | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 true | cop |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 witch | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 witch | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 witch | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 18 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 witch | amod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | parataxis |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hanged | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hanged | aux:pass |
| 26 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ordered | advcl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 beheaded | cc |
| 28 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hanged | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 guess | punct |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 guess | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 guess | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 guess | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 guess | advmod |
| 34 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 beheaded | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 36 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 guess | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | could | whip | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | face | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | princess | a wicked witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | past | a wicked witch | people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hange in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a wicked witch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | behead in a quote | participle | a wicked witch not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not guess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | people | princess's thoughts | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 8 | think in a quote | princess | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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