Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 75
But the princess was still a witch, and she could not love John.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, not love · To what, where: witch, John
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 witch | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witch | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 witch | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 love | advmod |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 witch | parataxis |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the princess | a witch | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not love | could | princess | John | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer john=Stimulus |
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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