Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 20
"No," said the witch; "but I do not ask for a single penny.
Who acts: witch · What happens: say, not ask · 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 (witch), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ask | advmod |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 penny | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 penny | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 penny | amod |
| 18 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | the witch = witch | for a single penny | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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