Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 19
"This is not a bad story," said the soldier; "but what am I to give you, you old witch? for, of course, you do not mean to tell me all this for nothing."
Who acts: This, soldier, you · What happens: not be, say, give, witch, not mean, tell · To what, where: bad story, you, this, soldier · 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 (This, soldier, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 story | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 give | obj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 witch | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 witch | nsubj |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 witch | amod |
| 25 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 said | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mean | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 35 mean | advmod |
| 30 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 of | fixed |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 of | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 mean | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 mean | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 mean | advmod |
| 35 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 tell | mark |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 mean | xcomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | iobj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 this | det:predet |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 tell | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 nothing | case |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 tell | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 mean | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | This | a bad story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | the soldier = soldier | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | witch in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | the soldier = soldier | for nothing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient this=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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