Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 31
The servants carried out his orders, but one single gnat had placed itself inside one of the coverings, crept into the prince's ear and stung him.
Who acts: servants, prince · What happens: carry out, place, creep, sting, order · To what, where: orders, one single gnat, ear, prince
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 (servants, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 orders | nmod:poss |
| 6 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gnat | nummod |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gnat | amod |
| 11 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 placed | aux |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 14 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 placed | obj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 coverings | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coverings | det |
| 19 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crept | punct |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 ear | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ear | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stung | cc |
| 28 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crept | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stung | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the servants | prince's orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | one single gnat | inside one of the coverings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme itself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | the prince's ear | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination | |||||
| 4 | sting | past | prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | order | prince | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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