Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 12
The conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters to his chariot when he drove through the streets of his city.
Who acts: prince · What happens: conquer, chain up, drive · To what, where: conquered kings, streets
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 (prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kings | det |
| 2 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kings | amod |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chained | aux:pass |
| 5 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 chained | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fetters | case |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fetters | amod |
| 9 | fetters | fetter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chained | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chariot | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetters | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 drove | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | nsubj |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chained | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 streets | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 streets | det |
| 18 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drove | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 city | nmod:poss |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 streets | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | chain up | past · passive | the conquered kings | with golden fetters to prince's chariot | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fetter=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | prince | the streets of prince's city | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Trajectory |
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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