Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 40
"With the crow? why, I am going to give it to the Princess."
Who acts: Dullard · What happens: go, give · To what, where: crow, Princess
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullard), 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 | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 crow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 crow | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 crow | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crow | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Dullard | with the crow | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Dullard not said here | crow | the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Recipient |
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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