Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 97
It was easy to believe after this that the princess was really going to marry a Turkish angel.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, believe, go, marry · To what, where: Turkish angel
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), 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 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 believe | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 believe | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 angel | det |
| 17 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 angel | amod |
| 18 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | after this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | the princess | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | a Turkish angel | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Patient |
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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