Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 77
“If I can kiss him, surely you can.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: kiss · To what, where: French
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 (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 kiss | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 kiss | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kiss | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kiss | aux |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kiss | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 can | punct |
| 8 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 10 can | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kiss | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss in a quote | can | the Princess = princess | French | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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