Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 48
“What will you take for the kitchen-pot?” said the lady.
Who acts: you, lady · What happens: take, say · 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 (you, lady), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 take | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kitchen | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | you | for the kitchen pot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for pot=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the lady | 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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