Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 59
Then he led him out into the princess's pleasure gardens, and there he saw a frightful sight.
Who acts: John · What happens: lead out, see · To what, where: Hurrah, pleasure gardens, frightful sight
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 (John), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 led | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 gardens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gardens | compound |
| 11 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 saw | expl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 18 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sight | amod |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past | John | Hurrah | the princess's pleasure gardens | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into garden=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | past | John | a frightful sight | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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