Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 16

But when he uttered the single word shoe, she turned as pale as a ghost; all her wisdom could not help her, for he had guessed rightly.

Who acts: John, princess, wisdom · What happens: utter, turn, not help, guess · To what, where: single word shoe, princess

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 (John, princess, wisdom), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 turned	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 uttered	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uttered	nsubj
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoe	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoe	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoe	compound
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uttered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 pale	advmod
13	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turned	xcomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 ghost	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ghost	det
16	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pale	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 wisdom	det:predet
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wisdom	nmod:poss
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 help	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 guessed	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 guessed	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 guessed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 guessed	aux
29	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 help	parataxis
30	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	29 guessed	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past	John	the single word shoe			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic
2	turn	past	princess			pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not help	could	princess's wisdom		princess		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
4	guess	past · perfect	John			rightly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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