Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 17
They sat side by side, and wished that they might never be obliged to part.
Who acts: people · What happens: sit, wish, not oblige · To what, where: side, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wished | cc |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 obliged | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 obliged | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 obliged | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wished | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 part | mark |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obliged | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | people | side | by side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Location | |||
| 2 | wish | past | people not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not oblige | might · passive | people | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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