Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 11
I will put on my new red shoes," she said one morning, "those that Kay has never seen, and then I will go down to the river, and ask for him."
Who acts: I, Gerda · What happens: put, say, not see, go down, ask · To what, where: new red shoes, those · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Gerda), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoes | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoes | amod |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoes | amod |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | 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 | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 morning | nummod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 those | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 those | punct |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 said | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 go | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 those | parataxis |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 river | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 river | det |
| 32 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 down | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ask | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ask | cc |
| 35 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ask | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | my new red shoes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gerda | those | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not see | present · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | go down | future | I | then | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | for Kay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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