Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 77
"I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony.
Who acts: I, crowd, emperor · What happens: wonder, mean, say, come out · To what, where: balcony · 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 (I, crowd, emperor), 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 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 means | obj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 pigsty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigsty | det |
| 9 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowd | nmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emperor | det |
| 15 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 balcony | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 24 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | that crowd near the pigsty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come out | past · perfect | the emperor | crowd's balcony | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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