Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 53
"Yes, then she might come; but she will not beg pardon," was the answer.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, not beg, be · To what, where: pardon, answer · 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), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 answer | csubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 beg | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 beg | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beg | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 beg | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 beg | advmod |
| 13 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | parataxis |
| 14 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beg | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beg | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 answer | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 answer | det |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | might | girl | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not beg speech: request in a quote | future | girl | pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | the answer | tree rules |
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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