Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 87
"Alas, unfortunate creature that I am!" said the princess, "I wish I had accepted the prince.
Who acts: unfortunate creature · What happens: say, wish, accept · To what, where: princess, prince · 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 (unfortunate creature), 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 | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 creature | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 4 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 am | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 am | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 accepted | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 accepted | aux |
| 20 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 wish | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accepted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | unfortunate creature | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | unfortunate creature = creature | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accept in a quote | past · perfect | unfortunate creature = creature | the prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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