Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 18

"But you have not won Babette yet," said the miller, slapping the young Alpine hunter on the shoulder playfully.

Who acts: you, miller · What happens: not win, say, slap · To what, where: Babette, young Alpine hunter · 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	_	6 won	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 won	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 won	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 won	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 won	advmod
6	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
7	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 won	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slapping	punct
15	slapping	slap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hunter	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hunter	amod
18	Alpine	Alpine	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hunter	compound
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slapping	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shoulder	det
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunter	nmod
23	playfully	playfully	ADV	_	15 slapping	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not win in a quote	present · perfect	you	Babette	yet		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slap	gerund	the miller not said here	the young Alpine hunter		on the shoulder; playfully property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunter=Instrument on shoulder=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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