Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 104

"Would you like to have your freedom?" asked the princess, "or would you prefer to be raised to the position of court crows, with all that is left in the kitchen for yourselves?"

Who acts: you, princess · What happens: like, have, ask, prefer, raise, leave · To what, where: freedom, position, that, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 freedom	nmod:poss
8	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 prefer	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prefer	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 prefer	nsubj
19	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 raised	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 raised	aux:pass
22	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prefer	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 position	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 position	det
25	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raised	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 crows	case
27	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crows	compound
28	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 position	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
30	with	with	SCONJ	_	34 left	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 left	det:predet
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 left	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux:pass
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 raised	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 kitchen	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kitchen	det
37	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 left	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 yourselves	case
39	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 left	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	your freedom			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	the princess				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prefer in a quote	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	raise not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here		the position of court crows		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to position=Destination
6	leave in a quote	present · passive		that	the kitchen	for yourselves	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in kitchen=Location

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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