Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 18
“Let us see what is in the other casket, before we get into a bad humor,” said the Emperor.
Who acts: us, we, Emperor · What happens: let, see, be, get, say · To what, where: us, other casket, bad humor · 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 (us, we, Emperor), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 casket | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 casket | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 casket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 casket | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 casket | amod |
| 10 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 humor | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 humor | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 humor | amod |
| 18 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emperor | det |
| 23 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the other casket | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | we | a bad humor | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into humor=Destination | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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