Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 22

"Ah, ah," said an old hunter, "he has kissed Annette, has he? he has begun with A, and I suppose he will kiss through the whole alphabet."

Who acts: old hunter, Rudy · What happens: say, kiss, begin, suppose · To what, where: Annette, whole alphabet · 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 (old hunter, Rudy), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ah	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ah	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	parataxis
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hunter	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hunter	amod
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kissed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 kissed	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kissed	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 kissed	aux
15	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
16	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 kissed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begun	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	aux
23	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 A	case
25	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 begun	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 suppose	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 suppose	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 suppose	nsubj
29	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 begun	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kiss	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kiss	aux
32	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 suppose	ccomp
33	through	through	ADP	_	36 alphabet	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 alphabet	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 alphabet	amod
36	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kiss	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 begun	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	a old hunter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kiss in a quote	present · perfect	Rudy	Annette			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent annette=Co-Agent
3	begin in a quote	present · perfect	Rudy			with A	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	suppose in a quote	present	a old hunter = hunter				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	kiss in a quote	future	Rudy		the whole alphabet		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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