Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 18

The prince sat in the centre of the ship, and had only to touch a spring in order to make thousands of bullets fly out in all directions, while the guns were at once loaded again.

Who acts: prince, thousands · What happens: sit, have, touch, make, fly out, load · To what, where: centre, order, directions, guns

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, thousands), 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	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 centre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 centre	det
6	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 centre	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 touch	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 touch	mark
15	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spring	det
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touch	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 order	case
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touch	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 touch	advcl
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bullets	case
24	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thousands	nmod
25	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 make	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 fly	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 directions	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 directions	det
29	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 loaded	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 loaded	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 guns	det
33	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 loaded	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 loaded	aux:pass
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 once	case
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 loaded	obl
37	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fly	conj
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 loaded	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	the prince		the centre of the ship		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location
2	have	past	the prince not said here				tree rules
3	touch	to-infinitive	the prince not said here		order	spring	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	the prince not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	fly out	present	thousands of bullets		all directions		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
6	load	past · passive		the guns		again	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at once=Destination

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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