Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 67
Then the princess herself came riding into the palace yard with all her ladies, and he wished her "Good morning."
Who acts: princess, John · What happens: come, ride, wish · To what, where: princess
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, 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 yard | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yard | compound |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 riding | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ladies | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 ladies | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 riding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 morning | punct |
| 21 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 morning | amod |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 morning | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the princess | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the princess not said here | into the palace yard; with princess's ladies | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into yard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | John | princess | morning | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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