Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 33

Mad with pain, he tore off the coverings and his clothes too, flinging them far away, and danced about before the eyes of his ferocious soldiers, who now mocked at him, the mad prince, who wished to make war with God, and was overcome by a single little gnat.

Who acts: poison, mad prince, single little gnat · What happens: tore off, fling, dance, mock, wish, make · To what, where: coverings, eyes, ferocious soldiers, war

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 (poison, mad prince, single little gnat), 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tore	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 pain	case
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mad	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 tore	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coverings	det
9	coverings	covering	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tore	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clothes	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 clothes	nmod:poss
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 coverings	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	6 tore	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flinging	punct
15	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tore	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flinging	obj
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	15 flinging	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 danced	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 danced	cc
21	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tore	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 danced	advmod
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eyes	det
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 danced	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 soldiers	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 soldiers	nmod:poss
28	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soldiers	amod
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eyes	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mocked	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 mocked	nsubj:pass
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 mocked	advmod
33	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 soldiers	acl:relcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 mocked	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 prince	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 prince	det
38	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 prince	amod
39	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mocked	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wished	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 wished	nsubj
42	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 prince	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 make	mark
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wished	xcomp
45	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 make	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 God	case
47	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 make	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 overcome	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 overcome	cc
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 overcome	aux:pass
51	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 danced	conj
52	by	by	ADP	_	56 gnat	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 gnat	det
54	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 gnat	amod
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 gnat	amod
56	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 overcome	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore off	past	poison	the coverings and poison's clothes				tree rules
2	fling	gerund	poison not said here	coverings = covering			away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	dance	past	poison not said here		the eyes of poison's ferocious soldiers		about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location
4	mock	participle · passive		poison's ferocious soldiers		now	at poison	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	wish	past	the mad prince					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mad prince not said here	war			with God	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
7	overcome	past · passive	a single little gnat					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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