Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 26
The next day, therefore, he was able to guess correctly the second time, and it caused great rejoicing at the palace.
Who acts: next day, glove · What happens: be, guess, cause, rejoice · To what, where: palace
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 (next day, glove), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 able | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 able | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 guess | mark |
| 11 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 11 guess | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guess | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caused | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caused | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | conj |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 caused | xcomp |
| 21 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 caused | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rejoicing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next day | able, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess | to-infinitive | the next day not said here | time | correctly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cause | past | glove | great property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | glove not said here | the palace | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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