Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 81
It was very quickly known among the inhabitants of the town that another suitor had arrived for the princess, and there was great sorrow in consequence.
Who acts: suitor, great sorrow · What happens: know, arrive, be · To what, where: morrow, town
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 (suitor, great sorrow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 quickly | advmod |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 inhabitants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inhabitants | det |
| 8 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inhabitants | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 arrived | obj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 suitor | det |
| 14 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arrived | aux |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 town | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | parataxis |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sorrow | amod |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 consequence | case |
| 27 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sorrow | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | morrow | among the inhabitants of the town; quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect | another suitor | the town | for the princess | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | past | great sorrow in consequence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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