Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 93

John and his princess loved each other dearly, and the old king lived to see many a happy day, when he took their little children on his knees and let them play with his sceptre.

Who acts: John, old king, king, festivities · What happens: love, live, see, take, let, play · To what, where: each, many, little children, knees, festivities

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, old king, king, festivities), 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	5 loved	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 princess	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 princess	nmod:poss
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 John	conj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 loved	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dearly	amod
8	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lived	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lived	xcomp
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 see	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 took	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 see	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 children	amod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 knees	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knees	nmod:poss
30	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 let	cc
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	obj
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 sceptre	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sceptre	nmod:poss
37	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 play	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	John and John's princess	each				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	live	past	the old king					tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the old king not said here	many		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus
4	take	past	king	festivities's little children	John's knees			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme on knee=Destination
5	let	infinitive	the old king not said here	festivities = festivity				tree rules
6	play	infinitive	festivities = festivity not said here				with John's sceptre	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sceptre=Theme

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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