Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 9

"Indeed I will," said the student; "give me the book instead of the cheese; I can eat my bread and butter without cheese.

Who acts: student · What happens: say, give, eat · To what, where: book, student, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), 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	_	2 Indeed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 will	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Indeed	aux
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	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 student	det
9	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 cheese	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cheese	det
19	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bread	nmod:poss
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 butter	cc
27	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bread	conj
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 cheese	case
29	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the student				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	infinitive		the book	the student = student	instead the cheese	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient book=Theme
3	eat in a quote	can	the student = student	my bread and butter		without cheese	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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