--- title: "The king's daughter lives there," she replied; "it has been prophes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "The king's daughter lives there," she replied; "it has been prophesied that she will be very unhappy about a lover, and therefore no one is allowed to visit her, unless the king and queen are present." Who acts: daughter, one, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, one, king), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:35:16 # text = "The king's daughter lives there," she replied; "it has been prophesied that she will be very unhappy about a lover, and therefore no one is allowed to visit her, unless the king and queen are present." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 prophesied prophesy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the king's daughter | | | there | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | daughter | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prophesy** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | castle | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | daughter | | | | | about a lover; unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **allow** *in a quote* | present · passive | | no one | | | | therefore *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **visit** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | daughter | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king and queen | | | | | present *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/17/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)