Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 87
The king likes especially the romance of Messeurs Iffven and Gaudian, which describes King Arthur and his knights of the round table.
Who acts: king, romance, Messeurs · What happens: like, describe, romance · To what, where: romance, King Arthur
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, romance, Messeurs), 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 likes | nsubj |
| 3 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 6 romance | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 romance | det |
| 6 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 likes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Messeurs | case |
| 8 | Messeurs | Messeurs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 romance | nmod |
| 9 | Iffven | Iffven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Messeurs | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Gaudian | cc |
| 11 | Gaudian | Gaudian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Messeurs | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 describes | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 describes | nsubj |
| 14 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 romance | acl:relcl |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Arthur | compound |
| 16 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 describes | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knights | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knights | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Arthur | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 table | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 22 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 table | amod |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knights | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | the king | the romance of Messeurs and Gaudian | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot romance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | present | the romance of Messeurs and Gaudian | King Arthur and king's knights of the round table | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme | ||||
| 3 | romance | Messeurs and Gaudian | nom romance «state intransitive»: of=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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