Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 75

“Oh--but we should not like that at all!” said they.

Who acts: we, kisses · What happens: not like, say · To what, where: that, all · 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, kisses), 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	_	8 like	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 like	discourse
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 like	cc
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 like	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 like	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	should	we	that		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	kisses = kiss						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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