Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 32
"I have something better than milk," she replied, "which I will give you.
Who acts: land · What happens: have, reply, give · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 milk | case |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | land | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | land | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | land | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme |
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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