Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 28

But wait a moment; it just comes into my mind, I require somebody to look after my pigs, for I have a great many."

Who acts: you, vacancy, I, my · What happens: wait, come, require, look, have, mind · To what, where: mind, somebody, great many

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, vacancy, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 wait	cc
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wait	parataxis
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 mind	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mind	nmod:poss
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 require	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 require	nsubj
14	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wait	parataxis
15	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 require	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 require	advcl
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 pigs	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pigs	nmod:poss
20	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 look	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wait	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 many	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 many	amod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			moment	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	vacancy		my mind		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location
3	require	present	I	somebody			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme somebody=Precondition
4	look	to-infinitive	I not said here			after my pigs	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	present	I	a great many			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
6	mind		my				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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