Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 60

On every tree hung three or four king's sons who had wooed the princess, but had not been able to guess the riddles she gave them.

Who acts: three sons, princess · What happens: hang, woo, not be, guess, give · To what, where: three sons, tree, princess, riddles

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 (three sons, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sons	nummod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 four	cc
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 three	conj
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wooed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wooed	aux
13	wooed	woo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sons	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wooed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 able	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 able	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hung	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 guess	mark
23	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 riddles	det
25	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 guess	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 riddles	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		king's three sons		every tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme on tree=Destination
2	woo	past · perfect	king's three sons	the princess				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	not is	past · perfect					able property	tree rules
4	guess	to-infinitive		the riddles				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme
5	give	past	princess	the riddles not said here	riddles = riddle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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