Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 52

“He is an impudent fellow!” said the Princess, and she walked on; but when she had gone a little way, the bells tinkled so prettily

Who acts: Swineherd, Princess, Charmant · What happens: be, say, walk on, go, tinkle · To what, where: impudent fellow, little way, bells · 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, Princess, Charmant), 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	_	6 fellow	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 walked	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 gone	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 way	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bells	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bells	det
28	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 way	appos
29	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 bells	acl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 prettily	advmod
31	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Swineherd	a impudent fellow		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	walk on	past	Charmant			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · perfect	Charmant	a little way	prettily property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	tinkle	participle		the bells not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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