Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 97
Thou could'st not prize the rose and the nightingale, but thou wast ready to kiss the swineherd for the sake of a trumpery plaything.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: not prize, kiss · To what, where: rose, swineherd
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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 prize | nsubj |
| 2 | could'st | could'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prize | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 prize | advmod |
| 4 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prize | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nightingale | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nightingale | det |
| 9 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wast | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wast | cc |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 wast | nsubj |
| 13 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prize | conj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wast | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kiss | mark |
| 16 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wast | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swineherd | det |
| 18 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kiss | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 sake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sake | det |
| 21 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kiss | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 plaything | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 plaything | det |
| 24 | trumpery | trumpery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 plaything | amod |
| 25 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sake | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prize | infinitive | Thou | the rose and the nightingale | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kiss | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | the swineherd | for the sake of a trumpery plaything | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=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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