Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 75
John could not refrain from telling him how gracious the princess had been, and how beautiful she looked.
Who acts: John, princess · What happens: not refrain, tell, be, look · To what, where: John · 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 (John, 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 refrain | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refrain | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 refrain | advmod |
| 4 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 refrain | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 telling | iobj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 gracious | advmod |
| 9 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 telling | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 been | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 been | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gracious | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 refrain | parataxis |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refrain | could | John | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | John not said here | John | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | participle | gracious property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | past | princess | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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