Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 6
He erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw these splendid buildings and great treasures exclaimed admiringly: "What a mighty prince!"
Who acts: fortune, all · What happens: erect, see, exclaim · To what, where: magnificent palaces, splendid buildings
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, all), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 erected | nsubj |
| 2 | erected | erect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palaces | amod |
| 4 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 erected | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 churches | punct |
| 6 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 palaces | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 halls | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 halls | cc |
| 9 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 palaces | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 all | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 buildings | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 buildings | amod |
| 17 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 treasures | cc |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treasures | amod |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buildings | conj |
| 21 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 erected | conj |
| 22 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 21 exclaimed | advmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 prince | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 prince | punct |
| 25 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 28 prince | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prince | amod |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 erected | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 prince | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | past | fortune | magnificent palaces and churches and halls | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | this splendid buildings and great treasures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer building=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | all | admiringly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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