Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 26
"Good day, emperor," he said, "could you not give me some employment at the court?"
Who acts: emperor, you · What happens: say, not give · To what, where: employment, emperor, court · 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 (emperor, you), 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 | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 emperor | punct |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 give | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 give | advmod |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 employment | det |
| 18 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 court | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 court | det |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | emperor | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | could | you | some employment | emperor | the court | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient employment=Theme at court=Asset |
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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