Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 7
Early in the morning John awoke, and when his fellow-traveller got up, he said that he had a very wonderful dream about the princess and her shoe, he therefore advised John to ask her if she had not thought of her shoe.
Who acts: John, fellow traveller, traveller, princess · What happens: awake, get up, say, have, advise, ask · To what, where: wonderful dream, John, princess · 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, fellow traveller, traveller, princess), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 got | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 traveller | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 traveller | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 13 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 got | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dream | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 wonderful | advmod |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dream | amod |
| 25 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dream | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shoe | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 31 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 princess | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 advised | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 advised | nsubj |
| 34 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 35 advised | advmod |
| 35 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 36 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 advised | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 ask | mark |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 advised | xcomp |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | iobj |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 thought | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 thought | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 thought | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 thought | advmod |
| 44 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 ask | advcl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 shoe | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 47 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | John | morning | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get up | past | John's fellow traveller | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | traveller | a wonderful dream | about the princess and princess's shoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | |||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | traveller | John | therefore property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | John not said here | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | not think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | princess | of princess's shoe | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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