Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 89
The king said thou to him because he was going to be one of the family.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: thou, door, one · 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 (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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 one | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 going | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | thou | door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | king | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | king not said here | one | of the family | 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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