Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 28
“Well then let the bird fly,” said the Princess; and she positively refused to see the Prince.
Who acts: Princess, fly · What happens: let, say, refuse, not see · To what, where: bird fly, Prince · 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, fly), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 let | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fly | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | compound |
| 7 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 refused | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 refused | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 refused | nsubj |
| 16 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 17 refused | advmod |
| 17 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 refused | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the bird fly | then | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | refuse | past | fly | positively property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see | to-infinitive | fly not said here | the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
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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