Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 64
“We know who has soup, and who has pancakes for dinner to-day, who has cutlets, and who has eggs.
Who acts: We · What happens: know, have · To what, where: soup, pancakes, cutlets, eggs · 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 (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:120): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 11 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 20 | cutlets | cutlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 has | cc |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 has | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | soup | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | pancakes | day | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Patient | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | cutlets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutlet=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | eggs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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