Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 21
The wicked prince showered thousands of bullets upon him, but they rebounded from his shining wings and fell down like ordinary hailstones.
Who acts: wicked prince, thousands · What happens: shower, rebound, fall down · To what, where: thousands, shining wings
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, 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 | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showered | nsubj |
| 4 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bullets | case |
| 7 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thousands | nmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bullets | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rebounded | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 rebounded | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rebounded | nsubj |
| 13 | rebounded | rebound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showered | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 wings | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shining | shining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wings | compound |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rebounded | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rebounded | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 fell | compound:prt |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 hailstones | case |
| 22 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hailstones | amod |
| 23 | hailstones | hailstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | past | the wicked prince | thousands of bullets upon God | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rebound | past | thousands = thousand | God's shining wings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | thousands = thousand not said here | like ordinary hailstones | vn occur-48.3 «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.
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