Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 35
She had also seen the festival on board ship, and she told them where the prince came from, and where his palace stood.
Who acts: friend, prince, palace · What happens: see, tell, come, stand · To what, where: festival, board ship, others · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, prince, palace), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ship | compound |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 festival | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stood | cc |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 stood | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | friend | the festival | board ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer festival=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | friend | others = other | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | prince's palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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