Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 16

Then the archbishop arrived, to be with her during her last hours, as he had promised the king.

Who acts: archbishop · What happens: arrive, be, promise · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archbishop), 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	4 arrived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 archbishop	det
3	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 her	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	9 her	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 her	cop
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	conj
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 hours	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hours	nmod:poss
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promised	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 promised	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 promised	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 promised	aux
18	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 arrived	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promised	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the archbishop		then; hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the archbishop not said here			with Eliza	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	archbishop	the king			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent king=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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