Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 3
The prince was of opinion that all this was right, and that it was only the natural course which things ought to take.
Who acts: prince, that, Many, things · What happens: be, take · To what, where: natural course
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, that, Many, things), 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 | 5 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opinion | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 opinion | case |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 right | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 right | nsubj |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 opinion | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 take | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 course | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 course | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 course | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 course | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 course | det |
| 18 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 course | amod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | advcl |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 things | det |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 take | nsubj |
| 22 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 opinion | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | of opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Many | the natural course | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | ought | which things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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