Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 49
“I will have ten kisses from the Princess,” said the swineherd.
Who acts: swineherd · What happens: have, say · To what, where: ten kisses · 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 (swineherd), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kisses | nummod |
| 6 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kisses | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swineherd | det |
| 14 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | the swineherd = swineherd | ten kisses | from the Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the swineherd | 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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