Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 34
"I know for whom it was intended," said the General's lady, "but I shall not say it.
Who acts: lady · What happens: know, intend, say, not say · To what, where: One · 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 (lady), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 whom | case |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 know | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 intended | aux:pass |
| 8 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 whom | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 General | det |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lady | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 General | case |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 say | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 say | advmod |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 say | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the General's lady = lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | intend in a quote | past · passive | One | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the General's lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert in a quote | shall | the General's lady = lady | One | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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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