Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 80
“A hundred kisses from the Princess,” said he, “or else let everyone keep his own!”
Who acts: hundred kisses, everyone · What happens: say, let, keep · To what, where: everyone, own · 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 (hundred kisses, everyone), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kisses | nummod |
| 4 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kisses | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kisses | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kisses | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 let | advmod |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | hundred kisses from the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | everyone | else property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | everyone not said here | French's own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme |
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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