Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 28

At the boy's cradle a prophecy had been spoken: 'He will die on the throne of France!'

Who acts: poor · What happens: speak, die · To what, where: prophecy, cradle, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 cradle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cradle	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boy	case
5	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prophecy	det
7	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 spoken	aux:pass
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
13	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 die	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 spoken	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 throne	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 throne	det
18	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 France	case
20	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 throne	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		a prophecy		the boy's cradle			tree rules
2	die	future	poor			the throne of France			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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