Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 50
Just by the palace the magician stopped to wish the princess farewell, and to whisper in her ear, "To-morrow think of my head."
Who acts: palace, head · What happens: stop, wish, whisper, think · To what, where: princess farewell, morrow think, ear
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 (palace, head), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 palace | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magician | det |
| 6 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farewell | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farewell | compound |
| 12 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whisper | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whisper | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 whisper | mark |
| 16 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whisper | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 22 | To | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 To | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 think | compound |
| 25 | think | think | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whisper | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 think | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 whisper | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 whisper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | the palace not said here | the princess farewell | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farewell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | the palace not said here | morrow think of my head | palace's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | |||
| 4 | think in a quote | my head | nom think «cognition 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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