Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 28
They entered the ships and the prince was approaching his own, when God sent a swarm of gnats--one swarm of little gnats.
Who acts: warriors, prince, God · What happens: enter, approach, send · To what, where: ships, own, swarm
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 (warriors, prince, God), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ships | det |
| 4 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 approaching | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 approaching | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 approaching | aux |
| 9 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 entered | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 own | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 approaching | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 sent | mark |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 swarm | det |
| 17 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gnats | case |
| 19 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swarm | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 swarm | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 swarm | nummod |
| 22 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swarm | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gnats | case |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gnats | amod |
| 25 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 swarm | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | warriors = warrior | the ships | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Destination | ||||
| 2 | approach | past · progressive | the prince | prince's own | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | God | a swarm of gnats and one swarm of little gnats | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swarm=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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