Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 25
The princess this time was to think of a glove, and he told John as if he had again heard it in a dream.
Who acts: John · What happens: think, tell, hear · To what, where: John, glove, dream · 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 (John), 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 | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 glove | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glove | det |
| 10 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | parataxis |
| 15 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 told | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 dream | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dream | det |
| 25 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | time | of a glove | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | John | John | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | John | glove | a dream | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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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