Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 20
"You are right," said the emperor, and began to cry like a little child.
Who acts: You, emperor · What happens: be, say, begin, cry · 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, emperor), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cry | mark |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the emperor not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | like a little child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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