Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 69
So you see," he continued, "that the princess is not dead, for she must have sent her little one up here; and now I have found a home for her."
Who acts: you, king, princess, child, I · What happens: see, continue, not be, send, find · To what, where: little one, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, princess, child), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dead | advmod |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 continued | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | aux |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 dead | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 one | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 here | advmod |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sent | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 found | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 found | aux |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 see | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 home | det |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | the princess | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | must · perfect | child | child's little one | here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | present · perfect | I | a home | now | for child | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent home=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
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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