Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 91
You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!"
Who acts: You · What happens: refuse, not appreciate, not mind, kiss, have, blame · To what, where: honest prince, rose, swineherd, one
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 appreciate | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 appreciate | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appreciate | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 appreciate | advmod |
| 10 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refused | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rose | det |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appreciate | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nightingale | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nightingale | det |
| 15 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 mind | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 mind | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mind | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mind | advmod |
| 21 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 appreciate | conj |
| 22 | kissing | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 mind | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 swineherd | det |
| 24 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kissing | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 toys | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 toys | nmod:poss |
| 27 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kissing | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 yourself | cc |
| 34 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 one | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 blame | mark |
| 36 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 one | acl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | You | a honest prince | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not appreciate | past · do-support | you | the rose and the nightingale | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not mind | past · do-support | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kiss | gerund | you not said here | a swineherd | for prince's toys | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | have | present | you | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 6 | blame | to-infinitive | you not said here | no one not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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