Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 66
“Yes, but keep my secret, for I am an Emperor's daughter.”
Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: secret
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, Princess), 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 keep | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 keep | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 secret | nmod:poss |
| 7 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | cop |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Emperor | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | for Emperor's daughter | tree rules |
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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