Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 29
They buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily he drew his sword and brandished it, but he only touched the air and did not hit the gnats.
Who acts: warriors, prince · What happens: buzz, sting, draw, brandish, touch, not hit · To what, where: face, sword, air, gnats
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), 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 buzzed | nsubj |
| 2 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buzzed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stung | cc |
| 7 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 buzzed | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stung | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hands | cc |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 face | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 buzzed | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brandished | cc |
| 19 | brandished | brandish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brandished | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 touched | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 touched | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touched | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 touched | advmod |
| 25 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 buzzed | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 touched | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hit | cc |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hit | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 hit | advmod |
| 31 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 touched | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gnats | det |
| 33 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hit | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buzzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past | warriors = warrior | round the prince | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sting | past | warriors = warrior not said here | prince's face and hands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | prince | prince's sword | angrily property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | brandish | past | prince not said here | sword | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | touch | past | prince | the air | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | not hit | past · do-support | prince not said here | the gnats | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gnat=Co-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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