Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 15
"For shame, pa," she said, "it is not artificial, it is natural!"
Who acts: more, tree · What happens: say, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, tree), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 shame | case |
| 3 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pa | punct |
| 5 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shame | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shame | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shame | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 artificial | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 artificial | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 artificial | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 artificial | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 artificial | advmod |
| 15 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 natural | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 natural | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 natural | cop |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 artificial | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 artificial | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | more | for shame and pa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | tree | artificial property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | tree not said here | natural property | tree rules |
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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