Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 6
Their father, who was king of the country, married a very wicked queen, who did not love the poor children at all.
Who acts: father, wicked queen · What happens: be, marry, not love · To what, where: king, wicked queen, poor children, all
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 (father, wicked queen), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 king | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 wicked | advmod |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 queen | amod |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 love | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 love | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 love | advmod |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 queen | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 love | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 love | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | children's father | king | of the country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past | children's father | a wicked queen | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not love | past · do-support | a wicked queen | the poor children | all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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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