Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 20
Then she awoke, and was very much frightened; but he told her he was a Turkish angel, who had come down through the air to see her, which pleased her very much.
Who acts: princess, son, Turkish angel · What happens: awake, frighten, tell, be, come down, see · To what, where: princess, Turkish angel, air · 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 (princess, son, Turkish angel), 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 | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 frightened | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux:pass |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 awoke | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 angel | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angel | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 angel | det |
| 18 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 angel | amod |
| 19 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 angel | acl:relcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pleased | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 pleased | nsubj |
| 33 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 angel | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pleased | nsubj |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 pleased | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | princess | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | son | princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | son | a Turkish angel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come down | past · perfect | a Turkish angel | the air | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | a Turkish angel not said here | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | be | a Turkish angel | 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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