Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 28
But the princess gave him a sword which was studded with gold coins, and these he could use.
Who acts: princess, father · What happens: give, stud, use · To what, where: sword, father
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, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 studded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 studded | aux:pass |
| 10 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sword | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 coins | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coins | compound |
| 13 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 studded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 these | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 these | cc |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 gave | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | aux |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 these | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the princess | a sword | father | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stud | past · passive | a sword | with gold coins | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with coin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | could | father | vn eat-39.1 «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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