Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 74
Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, have, take · To what, where: One, ten kisses, rest · 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 (you), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shall | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 yesterday | case |
| 8 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yesterday | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kisses | nummod |
| 12 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kisses | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 ladies | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ladies | det |
| 23 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 court | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 court | det |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ladies | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | One | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | ten kisses | yesterday | from me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | may | the rest | from the ladies of the court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rest=Theme from lady=Initial_Location |
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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