Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 8
The prince often looked with delight upon his gold and his magnificent edifices, and thought, like the crowd: "What a mighty prince!
Who acts: prince · What happens: look, think
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), 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 | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 delight | case |
| 6 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delight | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 edifices | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 edifices | nmod:poss |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 edifices | amod |
| 13 | edifices | edifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gold | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crowd | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 crowd | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crowd | det |
| 20 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 prince | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 prince | punct |
| 23 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 26 prince | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 prince | amod |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crowd | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the prince | with delight upon prince's gold and prince's magnificent edifices; often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the prince not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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