Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 4
His power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fortune favoured his deeds.
Who acts: fortune, his · What happens: increase, fear, favour, name · To what, where: power, deeds
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 (fortune, his), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 power | nmod:poss |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 power | acl |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 power | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feared | aux:pass |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 feared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 favoured | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 favoured | cc |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 favoured | nsubj |
| 17 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feared | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 favoured | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | participle | His power and his name not said here | day | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fear | past · passive | His power and his name | by all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | favour | past | fortune | fortune's deeds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | his = he | nom name «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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