Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 39

Then the princess told him that John had guessed rightly the second time, and if he succeeded the next morning, he would win, and she could never come to the mountain again, or practice magic as she had done, and therefore she was quite unhappy. "

Who acts: princess, John, magician · What happens: tell, guess, succeed, win, not come, do · To what, where: magician, practice magic, mountain · 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, John, magician), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 guessed	mark
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 guessed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 guessed	aux
9	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	13 time	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guessed	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 win	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 win	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 succeeded	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 succeeded	nsubj
18	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 win	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morning	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 morning	amod
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 succeeded	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 succeeded	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 win	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 win	aux
25	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 win	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 mountain	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountain	det
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 magic	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 magic	cc
38	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 magic	compound
39	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 done	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 done	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 come	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 unhappy	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 unhappy	cc
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	50 unhappy	advmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 unhappy	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 unhappy	cop
49	quite	quite	ADV	_	50 unhappy	advmod
50	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 unhappy	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		magician		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	guess	past · perfect	John				time		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	succeed a condition, not said to happen	past	magician				morning		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	win	would	magician						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not come	could	princess	practice magic		the mountain	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
6	do	past · perfect	princess						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	princess					therefore, unhappy property	tree rules

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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