Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 49
"Ask him," said the princess, "if he will be satisfied with ten kisses from one of my ladies."
Who acts: princess, emperor · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: emperor · 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 (princess, emperor), 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Ask | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 satisfied | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 satisfied | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 satisfied | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 satisfied | cop |
| 15 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 kisses | case |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kisses | nummod |
| 18 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 satisfied | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kisses | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ladies | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | emperor | with ten kisses from one of my ladies; satisfied property | tree rules |
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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