Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 9
The week after, she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant and his wife, and then she told the king so many untrue things about the young princes, that he gave himself no more trouble respecting them.
Who acts: queen, king, more trouble · What happens: send, tell, give, respect · To what, where: little Eliza, peasant, country, many untrue things, king, more trouble · 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, king, more trouble), 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 | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 week | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 week | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Eliza | amod |
| 8 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 peasant | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 peasant | det |
| 14 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wife | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peasant | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 told | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 many | advmod |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 things | amod |
| 27 | untrue | untrue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 things | amod |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 told | obj |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 princes | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 princes | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 princes | amod |
| 32 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 things | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gave | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 gave | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | conj |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 gave | iobj |
| 38 | no | no | ADV | _ | 39 more | advmod |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 trouble | amod |
| 40 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obj |
| 41 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 trouble | acl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 respecting | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | queen | little Eliza | a peasant and Eliza's wife | the country | week | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eliza=Theme to peasant=Destination | |
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | queen | many untrue things | the king | then | about the young princes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient thing=Topic | |
| 3 | give | past | king | more trouble | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient trouble=Theme | |||
| 4 | respect | gerund | more trouble not said here | things = thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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