Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 17

"Let us first see what the other case contains before we are angry," said the emperor; then the nightingale was taken out, and it sang so beautifully that no one could possibly say anything unkind about it.

Who acts: you, us, other case, we, emperor, tree · What happens: let, see, contain, be, say, take out · To what, where: nightingale, anything · 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 (you, us, other case, we), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 contains	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 case	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 case	amod
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contains	nsubj
10	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 angry	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 angry	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 angry	cop
14	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 contains	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 angry	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 angry	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 angry	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emperor	det
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 taken	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 taken	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nightingale	det
23	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taken	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux:pass
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Let	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 taken	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sang	nsubj
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 beautifully	advmod
32	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	30 sang	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 say	mark
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 say	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 say	aux
37	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	38 say	advmod
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sang	advcl
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 say	obj
40	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 anything	amod
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 unkind	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	us			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	contain in a quote	present	the other case				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	we			angry property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	take out	past · passive		the nightingale	then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	sing speech: express	past	tree			beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	say speech: assert	could	no one	anything		possibly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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