Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 38
One of the ladies had to go and ask; but she put on pattens.
Who acts: One, sow · What happens: have, go, ask, put · To what, where: pattens
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 (One, sow), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 had | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ladies | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladies | det |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ask | cc |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 pattens | case |
| 15 | pattens | patten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | One not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | One not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | past | sow | pattens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on patten=Destination |
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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