Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 1
"Yes, that I must," said Emily, "if you and my father do not say 'yes.'"
Who acts: Emily, you · What happens: say, not say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emily, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 must | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 must | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 you | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 say | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 father | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 you | conj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 say | advmod |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 yes | punct |
| 22 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 20 say | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 yes | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 yes | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Emily | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=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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