Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 30
It was ready however by Saturday, when he went to see the princess.
Who acts: gown, father · What happens: be, go, see · To what, where: princess
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 (gown, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ready | cop |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 ready | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Saturday | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 however | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 went | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ready | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gown | however, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | father not said here | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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