Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 14
When the princess entered, she looked even more beautiful than she had appeared the day before, and greeted every one present most gracefully; but to John she gave her hand, and said, "Good morning to you."
Who acts: princess · What happens: enter, look, appear, greet, give, say · To what, where: one present, hand, John, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | aux |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 beautiful | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 appeared | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 greeted | cc |
| 20 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 present | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 present | compound |
| 23 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 greeted | obj |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 gracefully | advmod |
| 25 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 20 greeted | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 John | case |
| 29 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | parataxis |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 said | cc |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 morning | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 morning | punct |
| 39 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 morning | amod |
| 40 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | obl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 said | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the princess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | princess | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | appear | past · perfect | princess | day | before property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | princess not said here | every one present | gracefully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | past | princess | princess's hand | John | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to john=Recipient | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | princess not said here | you | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
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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