Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 81
"Now you must have no more kisses," she said, "or I should kiss you to death."
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: have, say, kiss · To what, where: more kisses, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, queen), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 kisses | amod |
| 8 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 kiss | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kiss | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 kiss | aux |
| 18 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 kiss | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kiss | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | you | more kisses | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | should | queen | you | to death | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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