Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 91
The fellow-traveller, who had made himself invisible, so that she could not possibly see him, flew after her through the air, and whipped the princess with his rod, so that the blood came whenever he struck her.
Who acts: fellow traveller, window, blood, traveller · What happens: make, not see, fly, whip, come, strike · To what, where: traveller, air, 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 (fellow traveller, window, blood, traveller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 traveller | det |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 traveller | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fellow | punct |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 traveller | acl:relcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 17 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 flew | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | obl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 air | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 whipped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 whipped | cc |
| 29 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flew | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 princess | det |
| 31 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whipped | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 rod | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 rod | nmod:poss |
| 34 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 princess | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 40 came | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 blood | det |
| 39 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 whipped | conj |
| 41 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 struck | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 struck | nsubj |
| 43 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 came | advcl |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 struck | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 traveller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | the fellow traveller | traveller | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product | |||
| 2 | not see | could | window | traveller | possibly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the air | after window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | ||||
| 4 | whip | past | the princess | with traveller's rod | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent princess=Patient with rod=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | strike | past | traveller | princess | whenever property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument |
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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