Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 72
“I think he is not in his right senses!” said the Princess, and walked on, but when she had gone a little way, she stopped again.
Who acts: I, Prince, Princess, Superbe · What happens: think, not be, say, walk on, go, stop · To what, where: right senses, little way · 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 (I, Prince, Princess, Superbe), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 senses | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 senses | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 senses | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 senses | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 senses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 senses | amod |
| 10 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 gone | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 gone | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 walked | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stopped | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stopped | nsubj |
| 31 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | advcl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 stopped | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Prince | Prince's right senses | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | walk on | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go | past · perfect | Superbe | a little way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stop | past | Superbe | again | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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