Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 16
"With your courage and your good fortune you might win three wives," said the miller.
Who acts: you, miller · What happens: win, say · To what, where: three wives · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, miller), 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 | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 courage | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 courage | nmod:poss |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fortune | cc |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 courage | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 win | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 win | aux |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 wives | nummod |
| 13 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 win | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 miller | det |
| 18 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | might | you | three wives | with your courage and your good fortune | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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