Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 7
But for you and the youngsters the two young princesses would never have seen Egypt again, and the recovery of the old man would not have been effected.
Who acts: old man · What happens: not see, not affect, recover · To what, where: you, recovery
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 (old man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 youngsters | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youngsters | det |
| 6 | youngsters | youngster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 you | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princesses | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 princesses | nummod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 princesses | amod |
| 10 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 effected | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 effected | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 recovery | det |
| 20 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 effected | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recovery | nmod |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 effected | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 effected | advmod |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 effected | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 effected | aux:pass |
| 29 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seen | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | would · perfect · passive | you | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not affect | would · perfect · passive | the recovery of the old man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | recover | the old man | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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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