Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 121
I really must give you a kiss for that!" exclaimed the wife. "
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: give, exclaim · To what, where: kiss, you, wife
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kiss | det |
| 7 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 kiss | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | must | I | a kiss | you | for that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kiss=Theme for that=Asset | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the wife = wife not said here | the wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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