Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 33
“I want some one to take care of the pigs, for we have a great many of them.”
Who acts: Emperor, one, we · What happens: want, take, have · To what, where: one, care, great many
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, one, we), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pigs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pigs | det |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 great | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 many | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 many | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | the Emperor = emperor | some one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | some one not said here | care | of the pigs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of pig=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | great many of pigs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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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