Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 148
"No, you must not spend a dollar for your daughter's bridal bouquet," said the old maid; "you shall have a beautiful little bunch for a nosegay, full of blossoms.
Who acts: you, old maid · What happens: not spend, say, have · To what, where: dollar, beautiful little bunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old maid), 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 | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 spend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 spend | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spend | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 spend | advmod |
| 7 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dollar | det |
| 9 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spend | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bouquet | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bouquet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 14 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bouquet | amod |
| 15 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spend | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maid | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maid | amod |
| 21 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bunch | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bunch | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bunch | amod |
| 30 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 nosegay | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nosegay | det |
| 33 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bunch | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 full | punct |
| 35 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 nosegay | amod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 blossoms | case |
| 37 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 full | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend in a quote | must | you | a dollar | for your daughter's bridal bouquet | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset for bouquet=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | you | a beautiful little bunch | for a nosegay | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=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: «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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