Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 91
Then, how happy the princes were at meeting their little sister again, for they recognized her, although she had grown so tall and beautiful.
Who acts: happy princes, princes, sister · What happens: meet, recognize, grow · To what, where: little sister, sister
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 (happy princes, princes, sister), 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 | 9 meeting | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princes | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meeting | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 meeting | aux |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 meeting | mark |
| 9 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sister | amod |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meeting | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 meeting | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognized | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 recognized | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 recognized | nsubj |
| 17 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 meeting | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 recognized | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grown | punct |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 grown | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grown | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grown | aux |
| 23 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 recognized | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 tall | advmod |
| 25 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grown | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tall | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 meeting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · progressive | the happy princes | princes's little sister | then; again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | recognize | past | princes = prince | sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | sister | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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