Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 68
Then Eliza asked her if she had not seen eleven princes riding through the forest.
Who acts: Eliza, sunbeam, eleven princes · What happens: ask, not see, ride · To what, where: sunbeam, eleven princes, forest
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 (Eliza, sunbeam, eleven 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 10 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 princes | nummod |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 princes | acl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Eliza | sunbeam | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | sunbeam | eleven princes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | eleven princes not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory |
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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