Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 58
"If I had not been a crow," said he, "I would have married her myself, although I am engaged.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: have, not be, say, marry, engage · To what, where: crow, Kay · 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 (Kay), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 crow | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 crow | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 married | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 married | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 married | aux |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 married | obj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 married | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 engaged | punct |
| 22 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 25 engaged | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 engaged | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 engaged | aux:pass |
| 25 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 married | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Kay | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | participle | a crow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | would · perfect · passive | Kay | myself obl:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | engage in a quote | present · passive | Kay | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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