Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 83
“They are the ladies of the court; I must go down and see what they are about!”
Who acts: ladies, Emperor · What happens: be, go down, see · To what, where: ladies
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 (ladies, Emperor), 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 ladies | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ladies | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ladies | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ladies | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ladies | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 about | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 about | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 about | cop |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ladies = lady | the ladies | of the court | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go down in a quote | must | the Emperor = emperor | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | the Emperor = emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | ladies = lady | about property | tree rules |
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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