Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 1

There lived once upon a time a wicked prince whose heart and mind were set upon conquering all the countries of the world, and on frightening the people; he devastated their countries with fire and sword, and his soldiers trod down the crops in the fields and destroyed the peasants' huts by fire, so that the flames licked the green leaves off the branches, and the fruit hung dried up on the singed black trees.

Who acts: wicked prince, he, soldiers, flames, fruit · What happens: live, be, conquer, devastate, tread down, destroy · To what, where: countries, crops, fields, huts, green leaves, branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked prince, he, soldiers, flames), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 lived	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prince	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prince	amod
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mind	cc
13	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heart	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	cop
15	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	acl:relcl
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	17 conquering	mark
17	conquering	conquer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 set	advcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 countries	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 countries	det
20	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 conquering	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 countries	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 frightening	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 frightening	cc
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 frightening	case
27	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lived	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 frightening	nsubj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 devastated	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 devastated	nsubj
32	devastated	devastate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 countries	nmod:poss
34	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 devastated	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 fire	case
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 devastated	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sword	cc
38	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fire	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 trod	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 trod	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 soldiers	nmod:poss
42	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 trod	nsubj
43	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
44	down	down	ADP	_	46 crops	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 crops	det
46	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 trod	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 fields	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 fields	det
49	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 trod	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 destroyed	cc
51	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 peasants	det
53	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 huts	nmod:poss
54	'	's	PART	_	53 peasants	case
55	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 destroyed	obj
56	by	by	ADP	_	57 fire	case
57	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 destroyed	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 licked	punct
59	so	so	SCONJ	_	63 licked	mark
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 licked	mark
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 flames	det
62	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 licked	nsubj
63	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 leaves	det
65	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 leaves	amod
66	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 licked	obj
67	off	off	ADP	_	69 branches	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 branches	det
69	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 licked	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 hung	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 hung	cc
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 fruit	det
73	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 hung	nsubj
74	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
75	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	74 hung	xcomp
76	up	up	ADP	_	75 dried	compound:prt
77	on	on	ADP	_	81 trees	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 trees	det
79	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	81 trees	amod
80	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 trees	amod
81	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 hung	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a wicked prince				set property	tree rules
3	conquer	gerund	a wicked prince not said here	all countries of the world				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
4	devastate	past	he	people's countries			with fire and sword	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent country=Patient with fire=Instrument
5	tread down	past	his soldiers	the crops	the fields			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location crop=Theme
6	destroy	past		the peasants's huts			by fire	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Patient
7	lick	past	the flames	the green leaves	the branches			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme off branch=Source
8	hang	past	the fruit		the singed black trees			tree rules
9	dry up	participle	the fruit not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	singe	participle						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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