Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 175

He took the gold crown from his head, and placed it on hers, and asked her name, and if she would be his wife, and queen over all the flowers.

Who acts: man, creature · What happens: take, place, ask, be, name · To what, where: gold crown, head, crown, name, wife

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, creature), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crown	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crown	compound
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 placed	cc
11	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 hers	case
14	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 name	nmod:poss
19	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wife	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wife	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wife	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wife	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wife	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 wife	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 queen	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 queen	cc
30	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 flowers	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 queen	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	the gold crown	man's head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Initial_Location
2	place	past	man not said here	crown		on creature	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on her=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here	creature's name		queen over all flowers obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	would	creature	man's wife			tree rules
5	name		creature				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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