Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 70
"But we do not like to kiss him," said the ladies.
Who acts: we, ladies · What happens: not like, kiss, say · 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 (we, ladies), 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 | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kiss | mark |
| 8 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kiss | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ladies | det |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kiss not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | emperor | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the ladies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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