Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 10
"I will have a ride in the coach," said the little robber-girl; and she would have her own way; for she was so self-willed and obstinate.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: have, say, will · To what, where: ride, coach, own way, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ride | det |
| 6 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 coach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coach | det |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 15 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 robber | punct |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 willed | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 willed | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 willed | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 willed | aux:pass |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 willed | advmod |
| 31 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 willed | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 self | punct |
| 33 | willed | will | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 obstinate | cc |
| 35 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 willed | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | I | a ride | the coach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | have | would | woman | woman's own way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 4 | will | past · passive | woman | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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