Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 65
"He will have a hundred kisses from the princess," said the lady, who had gone down to ask him.
Who acts: instrument, lady · What happens: have, say, go down, ask · To what, where: hundred kisses, instrument · 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 (instrument, lady), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kisses | nummod |
| 7 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kisses | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lady | acl:relcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 gone | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gone | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | instrument | hundred kisses | from the princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go down | past · perfect | the lady | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | instrument | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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