Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 25

“Yes! yes!” said the Emperor, and he wept like a child at the remembrance.

Who acts: Emperor · What happens: say, weep · To what, where: remembrance · 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 (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	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Yes	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Emperor	det
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wept	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wept	nsubj
13	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wept	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 remembrance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 remembrance	det
19	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wept	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Emperor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	Emperor			the remembrance		like a child	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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