Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 72
"It is midnight," said the soldier, "yet I should very much like to see the princess, if only for a moment."
Who acts: light, midnight · What happens: be, say, like, see · To what, where: midnight, soldier, princess · 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 (light, midnight), 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 | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midnight | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | cop |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soldier | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 like | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 moment | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 moment | mark |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 moment | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 moment | det |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 like | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | light | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | midnight | the soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | midnight | yet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | midnight not said here | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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