Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 54
He had a page's dress made for her, that she might accompany him on horseback.
Who acts: prince, dress, mermaid · What happens: have, make, accompany · To what, where: prince, horseback
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, dress, mermaid), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 page | det |
| 4 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 page | case |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accompany | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 accompany | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accompany | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 accompany | aux |
| 14 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accompany | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 horseback | case |
| 17 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accompany | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a page's dress | for mermaid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | accompany | might | mermaid | prince | horseback | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horseback=Destination |
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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