Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 2
The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side.
Who acts: eleven brothers, princes · What happens: be, go · To what, where: princes, school
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven brothers, princes), 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 | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 princes | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 princes | cop |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 princes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 star | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 star | det |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 star | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sword | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sword | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sword | det |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princes | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sword | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 princes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the eleven brothers | princes and a sword by Eliza's side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | princes and a sword by Eliza's side not said here | school | with a star on Eliza's breast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
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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