Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 27
"There are so many," replied the emperor, "who apply for places, that for the present I have no vacancy, but I will remember you.
Who acts: many · What happens: be, reply, apply, have, remember · To what, where: emperor, places, that, you · 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 (many), 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 | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 many | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 emperor | det |
| 10 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 apply | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 apply | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 apply | nsubj |
| 14 | apply | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 apply | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 present | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 present | det |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 places | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 vacancy | det |
| 25 | vacancy | vacancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 remember | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 remember | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 remember | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 remember | aux |
| 30 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 apply | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 remember | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | many property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | many | the emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | apply in a quote | present | places | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | many | that | for the present | tree rules | |||
| 5 | remember in a quote | future | many | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=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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