Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 22

Willingly would she have turned her into a swan, like her brothers, but she did not dare to do so yet, because the king wished to see his daughter.

Who acts: book, king · What happens: turn, not dare, not do, wish, see · To what, where: queen, swan, daughter

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 (book, king), 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	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 swan	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swan	det
9	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brothers	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 swan	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dare	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 dare	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dare	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dare	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 dare	advmod
19	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dare	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 yet	advmod
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wished	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 wished	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wished	nsubj
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dare	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wished	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	book	queen	a swan and book's brothers		willingly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme into swan=Trajectory
2	not dare	past · do-support	book					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	to-infinitive	book not said here			yet		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wish	past	the king					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	king's daughter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

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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