Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 110
"I will not be touched," said the king.
Who acts: king · What happens: not touch, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 touched | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 touched | aux:pass |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | future · passive | the king = king | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | 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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