Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 16
"The king's daughter lives there," she replied; "it has been prophesied that she will be very unhappy about a lover, and therefore no one is allowed to visit her, unless the king and queen are present."
Who acts: daughter, one, king · What happens: live, reply, prophesy, be, allow, visit · To what, where: castle, one, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, one, king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lives | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lives | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 prophesied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 prophesied | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prophesied | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 17 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 replied | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 unhappy | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 unhappy | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 unhappy | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 unhappy | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 unhappy | advmod |
| 23 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prophesied | advcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 lover | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lover | det |
| 26 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unhappy | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 allowed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 allowed | cc |
| 29 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 33 allowed | advmod |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 allowed | aux:pass |
| 33 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 replied | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 visit | mark |
| 35 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 allowed | xcomp |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 visit | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 present | punct |
| 38 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 44 present | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 present | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 queen | cc |
| 42 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 king | conj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 present | cop |
| 44 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 allowed | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | the king's daughter | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | daughter | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prophesy in a quote | present · perfect · passive | castle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | daughter | about a lover; unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | allow in a quote | present · passive | no one | therefore property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | visit not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | no one not said here | daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the king and queen | present property | tree rules |
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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