Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 71
"That is nonsense," said the princess; "if I can kiss him, you can also do it.
Who acts: That, princess, you · What happens: be, say, kiss, do · To what, where: nonsense, 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 (That, princess, you), 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 nonsense | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nonsense | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nonsense | cop |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | _ | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kiss | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kiss | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 kiss | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kiss | aux |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kiss | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | nonsense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kiss a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the princess = princess | emperor | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | can | you | nonsense | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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