Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 69
Tell him I will give him ten kisses, as I did the other day; the remainder one of my ladies can give him.
Who acts: you, I, remainder · What happens: tell, give, do · To what, where: emperor, ten kisses · 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 (you, I, remainder), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kisses | nummod |
| 8 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 remainder | det |
| 18 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | nsubj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 remainder | flat |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ladies | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | ten kisses | emperor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | I | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | can | the remainder | emperor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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