Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 12

“Ah, if it were but a little pussy-cat!” said she; but the rose tree, with its beautiful rose came to view.

Who acts: joy, nightingale, rose tree · What happens: be, say, come, view · To what, where: little pussy cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, nightingale, rose tree), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	15 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 cat	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cat	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cat	cop
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 cat	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cat	amod
10	pussy	pussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cat	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pussy	punct
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	advcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 cat	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 cat	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
20	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 rose	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rose	nmod:poss
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rose	amod
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	conj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 view	mark
29	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	joy	a little pussy cat	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	nightingale		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the rose tree and joy's beautiful rose		tree rules
4	view	to-infinitive	the rose tree and joy's beautiful rose not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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