Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 25

Then she said to another, "Place yourself on her forehead, that she may become as ugly as you are, and that her father may not know her." "

Who acts: queen, another, father · What happens: say, place, become, be, not know · To what, where: another, forehead, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (queen, another, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 another	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Place	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Place	punct
8	Place	place	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 Place	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 forehead	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 forehead	nmod:poss
12	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Place	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 become	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Place	parataxis
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 ugly	advmod
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 become	xcomp
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 are	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 are	nsubj
22	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ugly	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 know	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 know	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	queen		another		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient clause=Topic
2	place in a quote	infinitive		another		queen's forehead			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme on forehead=Destination
3	become in a quote	may	queen					ugly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	does in a quote	present	another						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not know in a quote	may	queen's father	queen					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=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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