Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 26
“I will still hope that it is not a real bird,” said the Princess.
Who acts: Princess, remembrance · What happens: hope, not be, say · To what, where: real bird · 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 (Princess, remembrance), 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 | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hope | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 hope | advmod |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 bird | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bird | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bird | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bird | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hope | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | future | the Princess = princess | still | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | remembrance | a real bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | 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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