Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 66
"I believe he is mad," said the princess, and walked off, but soon she stopped. "
Who acts: princess, instrument, fire · What happens: believe, be, say, walk off, stop · 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, instrument, fire), 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 | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mad | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mad | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 walked | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stopped | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 stopped | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stopped | nsubj |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | the princess = princess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | instrument | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | walk off | past | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stop | past | fire | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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