Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 29
If he only guessed rightly the third time, he would marry the princess, and reign over the kingdom after the death of the old king: but if he failed, he would lose his life, and the magician would have his beautiful blue eyes.
Who acts: John, magician, old king · What happens: guess, marry, fail, lose, have, die · To what, where: princess, life, beautiful blue eyes
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, magician, old king), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 guessed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | advcl |
| 5 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | aux |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reign | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reign | cc |
| 17 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 princess | appos |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reign | nmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 death | det |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kingdom | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 king | amod |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 death | nmod |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 lose | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 lose | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 failed | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 failed | nsubj |
| 32 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lose | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 failed | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lose | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 lose | aux |
| 36 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 marry | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 life | nmod:poss |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lose | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 have | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 magician | det |
| 42 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 have | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 have | aux |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 lose | conj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 eyes | amod |
| 47 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 eyes | amod |
| 48 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 have | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess a condition, not said to happen | past | John | time | rightly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | marry | would | John | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen | past | John | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | would | John | John's life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have | would | the magician | John's beautiful blue eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | die | the old king | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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