Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 83
John allowed the water to close once more over the bird, and at the same time it changed into a most beautiful princess.
Who acts: John, water · What happens: allow, close, change · To what, where: water
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, water), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 allowed | nsubj |
| 2 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 allowed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 close | mark |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 close | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 changed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 changed | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 allowed | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 princess | amod |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | John | the water | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer water=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | close not said to happen | to-infinitive | the water not said here | over the bird | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | change | past | water | time | into a beautiful princess result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into princess=Result |
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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