Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 138
"Then will you give me the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner? and will you give me the emperor's crown?" said the bird.
Who acts: you, bird, emperor · What happens: give, say, crown · To what, where: beautiful golden sword, bird, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird, 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sword | amod |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sword | amod |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 banner | cc |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 banner | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 banner | amod |
| 14 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 emperor | det |
| 22 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crown | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 emperor | case |
| 24 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner | the bird = bird | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=Theme | ||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | you | the emperor's crown | the bird = bird | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crown=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | crown in a quote | the emperor | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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