Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 31
The king, and queen, and the whole court, were at tea with the princess; and he was received with great politeness.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: tea, king
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tea | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 queen | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 queen | cc |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 court | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 court | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 court | amod |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tea | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 tea | case |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tea | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 received | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 received | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 received | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 received | aux:pass |
| 22 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tea | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 politeness | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 politeness | amod |
| 25 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king and queen and the whole court | tea | with the princess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | king | with great politeness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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