Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 13
These kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers' feet when they sat at table, and live on the morsels which they left.
Who acts: kings, morsels · What happens: have, kneel, sit, live, leave · To what, where: feet, table, morsels
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 (kings, morsels), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 kings | det |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kneel | mark |
| 5 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feet | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 courtiers | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kneel | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sat | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kneel | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 live | cc |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 morsels | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 morsels | det |
| 23 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 left | nsubj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 morsels | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this kings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kneel | to-infinitive | this kings not said here | prince's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | kings = king | table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 4 | live | present | this kings not said here | the morsels | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on morsel=Location | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | the morsels | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/13/