Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 79
This would destroy the power of the magician, and she would love him very much.
Who acts: This, princess · What happens: destroy, love · To what, where: power, 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 destroy | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 destroy | aux |
| 3 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroy | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 magician | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | aux |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 destroy | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 love | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | would | This | the power of the magician | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | would | princess | John | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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