Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 52
"But if she were to say she was sorry, and ask pardon, and promise never to do so again?" asked the little one.
Who acts: girl, promise, little one · What happens: say, be, ask, not do · To what, where: pardon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, promise, little one), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | conj |
| 14 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 17 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | girl | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | girl not said here | pardon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive | promise | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the little one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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