Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 50
"No, thank you," said the swineherd: "ten kisses from the princess, or I keep my pot."
Who acts: swineherd · What happens: thank, say, keep · To what, where: you, pot · 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 | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swineherd | det |
| 10 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 kisses | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kisses | punct |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kisses | nummod |
| 14 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swineherd | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kisses | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 keep | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the swineherd and ten kisses from the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | the swineherd and ten kisses from the princess = swineherd | my pot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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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