Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 90
"I have now learnt to despise you," he said. "
Who acts: prince · What happens: learn, despise, say · To what, where: you · 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 (prince), 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 learnt | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learnt | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 learnt | advmod |
| 5 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 despise | mark |
| 7 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learnt | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 despise | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | prince | now | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | despise in a quote | to-infinitive | prince not said here | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince | 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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