Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 19

"He kissed me in the dance," said Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, to her dearest friend; but she ought not to have told this, even to her dearest friend.

Who acts: Rudy, Annette · What happens: kiss, say, not tell · To what, where: Annette, dance, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Annette), 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	_	3 kissed	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 daughter	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 schoolmaster	det
14	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 schoolmaster	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Annette	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 friend	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 friend	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
20	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 friend	amod
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Annette	appos
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
25	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 told	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 told	mark
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	aux
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 told	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 friend	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	36 friend	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 friend	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friend	nmod:poss
35	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 friend	amod
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	vocative
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss in a quote	past	Rudy	Annette	the dance		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Annette				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert	ought · perfect	Annette	this		Annette's dearest friend vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=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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