Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 23
These were delightful stories; and when he asked the princess if she would marry him, she consented immediately.
Who acts: These, son, princess · What happens: be, ask, marry, consent · To what, where: delightful stories, princess, son
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 (These, son, princess), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stories | cop |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 consented | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 consented | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 asked | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 consented | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 princess | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 consented | nsubj |
| 19 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stories | acl:relcl |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 consented | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stories | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | delightful stories | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | son | the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen | would | princess | son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | princess | immediately property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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