Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 54
A royal prince of Arabia, handsome as a prince should be, and accompanied by distinguished guests, was on his way to the stately house, on the roof of which the storks' empty nests might be seen.
Who acts: distinguished guests · What happens: accompany, be, see · To what, where: royal prince, way, empty nests
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinguished guests), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Arabia | case |
| 5 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 handsome | punct |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handsome | obl |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 accompanied | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accompanied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accompanied | cc |
| 15 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 guests | case |
| 17 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 guests | amod |
| 18 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accompanied | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 roof | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 roof | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 roof | det |
| 31 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 seen | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 storks | det |
| 35 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 nests | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 35 storks | case |
| 37 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 nests | amod |
| 38 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 seen | aux:pass |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 roof | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | should · passive | distinguished guests | a royal prince of Arabia | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Arabia's way | to the stately house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | might · passive | the storks's empty nests | of the roof | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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