Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 42
"Well, I cannot sell it for less," replied the swineherd.
Who acts: swineherd · What happens: not sell, reply · To what, where: employment · 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 (swineherd), 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 | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 sell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sell | advmod |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 less | case |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 swineherd | det |
| 15 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sell in a quote | can | the swineherd = swineherd | employment | for less | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for less=Asset | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the swineherd | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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