Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 92
“If I had but married the handsome young Prince!
Who acts: March · What happens: have, marry · To what, where: handsome young Prince
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 (March), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 married | cc |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Prince | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Prince | amod |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | March | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | past | March not said here | the handsome young Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
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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