Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 69
How could she be a wicked witch, as all the people asserted?
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, assert · To what, where: wicked witch
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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 witch | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 witch | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 witch | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 witch | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asserted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asserted | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 asserted | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 people | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asserted | nsubj |
| 13 | asserted | assert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 asserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | princess | a wicked witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assert | participle · passive | a wicked witch | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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