Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 70
Go in and ask him the price of the instrument; but mind, he shall have no more kisses!”
Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: go in, ask, have · To what, where: price, Prince, mind
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, Prince), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 price | det |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instrument | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 instrument | det |
| 10 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 price | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 kisses | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 kisses | amod |
| 20 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the price of the instrument | Prince | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | shall | Prince | mind | 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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