Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 94
People said that she was being brought up and educated in a religious house, where she was learning every royal virtue.
Who acts: People, princess · What happens: say, bring up, educate, learn · To what, where: princess, religious house, royal virtue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (People, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 brought | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 educated | cc |
| 10 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brought | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 educated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learning | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 learning | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 learning | aux |
| 19 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 house | acl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 virtue | det |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 virtue | amod |
| 22 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learning | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring up | past · passive | princess | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | educate speech: other | participle | a religious house | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | learn | past · progressive | princess | every royal virtue | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Topic |
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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